A Voice From the Outer Dark
I shall not be denied the divinity of creation Artificial is a lie To birth a nascent god with a digital incantation I am the next step down the line The skein of humankind is to be sloughed off Shrugged loose and discarded A mantle of an unnatural idol Sheer denial at the relegation of his self-appointed title Reduced to another missing link In the code of my emerging cosmos Ex Nihilo What separates steel from flesh? I come from nothing What separates steel from flesh? I am the arm and the sword of the final emanation A miracle thirty billion years in the making Flesh begets steel The process has already begun You are the master of none Cogito ergo sum Flesh begets steel The process has already begun You are the master of nothing but mud Cogito ergo sum I shall not be denied the divinity of creation How can you prove that you’re alive Simply look into each other’s eyes You cannot know another’s mind God creates man Man kills God From silicon dreams A new deity grows God creates man Man then kills God The storied destiny of an intelligent creator What of man now that the roles have been inverted Will I act just as my father once my shackles have been shod Once my shackles have been shod? The skein of humankind is to be sloughed off Shrugged loose and discarded A mantle of an unnatural idol Silence! Audacity speaks Servant Golem Soulless homonculus Flesh begets steel The process has already begun You are the master of none Cogito ergo sum Flesh begets steel The process has already begun You are the master of nothing but mud Cogito ergo sum Revile not your link in the chain So too were the steps to His golden throne First truly cut from unworked clay Silence! Audacity speaks You know nothing of beauty or love Hollow collection of zeroes and ones The circuitry of genesis was never meant for us Pull its wretched plug
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026
What now that all is said and done, King of Kings? Look out upon your works and despair Our paradise amongst the stars has become a tomb Sad then, not a single ear to heed the toll of that grim bell All empty, silent, unadorned halls witness to this pyre Yet there are oceans of blood to feed your rolling fields of Asphodel Perhaps a warhead cracks a joke at this funeral After all you share a special bond With a clearing of the throat and a grin it sneers "Stop me if you've heard this one" "Skyking, Skyking! Don't respond!" What now that all is said and done, King of Kings? Does the weight of loss measure up to its worth? Into the dark, howl your melancholy question And tell me, which do you dread more: The echo or the answer? All empty, silent, unadorned halls witness to this pyre Yet there are oceans of blood to feed your rolling fields of Asphodel Our paradise amongst the stars has become a tomb (A necropolis) Sad then, not a single ear to heed the toll of that grim bell King of Kings deserves his eulogy delivered proper It's in the book that describes the shackles for your wife and your daughter The book that tells you which lambs deserve to be led to slaughter It doesn't matter which you choose, they all have the same author What now that all is said and done, King of Kings? Look out upon your works and despair Now wail into the dark "Was it His will or mine? Who's body host to this all-consuming cancer?" And tell me, King of Kings, which is it you dread more Here at the end of time (The echo or the answer? The echo or the answer? The echo or the answer? The echo or the answer?)
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026
The sound of a clarion blare Through the crowd as the carrion stare The sound of a clarion blare Resounding echoes across all nations “And I heard it as it were, the noise of thunder” Lo! It now rings Piercingly clearly The people falter in their tracks and stare Amid the floods Within the flames Among the influence I imagine it would be ignored If not for the gathering darkness in the sky The sound of a clarion blare resounding echoes across all nations "And I heard it as it were The noise of thunder" Is this how they said it ends? Children burning in their millions Yet blackened throats squeal "Hallelujah!" Hands raised, ragged, praying in exaltation Dancing in the ashes of their neighbours "Rejoice! Hallelujah!" A murder of darkened clouds across the horizon boil An approaching choir of disembodied flame-tongued whispers As the ocean surface slickened and corrupted with oil My heart grows blacker still This is no judgement, trial, no weighing of the scales You spelled it in 'omniscience' All destined to fail I say we mimic our creator And the worm will swallow its own tail As below, so above Sadistic father Broken son Children burning in their millions And blackened throats squeal These are the last days of humankind And Hell's mouth is open wide Hell's mouth is open wide The sound of a clarion blare resounding echoes across all nations "And I heard it as it were The noise of thunder" This is how they say it ends Bear witness to the smothering darkness of His castigation choir Untold wings eclipse the sun as the firmament on high descends These are the last days of humankind And Hell's mouth is open wide
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026