Cascading Failures, Diminishing Returns

Vivid depths of hate and despair Ever doubting mortality Collecting a myriad of self indulgent experiences Eventually none will be left to see Compulsively building your monoliths on shifting sands Delusion claiming an autonomy over fetishizing misery Pain is a wave whose crest never breaks Endless chasing the synaptic responses to releases of dopamine The tide of memory recedes What's left is arid waste Where wisdom is an over-acumulation of failures of the past And of the present The future is lost The seed of self awareness / Is a husk That only seeks to preserve / Linear thought The loss and curse of reason / Patently Emboldens the suffering that we wreck No words exist to cut the / Threat of time All actions burned into unbroken lines A slow descent into dementia Undermines the will to power What's done is done There's no repentance For acts of desperation There is a crack / In everything But no light gets in Cascading Failures, Diminishing Returns

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Nov 08, 2025