Glorification of a Myth

Like convulsing fish unaware Of the murk in which they swim, The black hole generator We're all forced to live within. Self awareness imbued biochemical machinery Searching for our place at the gates of infinity. You look to etchings based on fear (Who am I? Why am I here?) And think you've found the answer. You presume to know the mind of God And grant him greater power. Each rational gaze through the lens of inquiry Will widen our view through the cracks of reality. Consider now, as we all must, The possibility That the glorification of a myth Is what your life has come to be. You look to etchings based on fear. (Who am I? Why am I here?) Religious moral guidance With its crude bronze-age inception Steers mankind to shallow depths And in the wrong direction. We are not the lonely product Of a maniac creator. We are all living as a result of The black hole generator.

We must face a threat to all civilisation: Dogmatic ideology with nuclear capacity Whose frenzied faithful all desire Apocalypse for their messiah. Lusting for a perfect world's ecstatic contradictions And bewildered by the prospect of creating it themselves, Credulous fools with theocratic convictions Would bring about cessation of life on Earth. Behold a world their faith inspires: A howling void now empty Of church going choirs. Bats ascend to boiling peaks where dancing glimmers roar, While crackles sired with flickering beaks at ashes on the floor. Asphyxiating vortex winds cast corpses away. From immolation death we're destined to decay. Is this the result you had in mind? Can you accept the legacy left behind? Into thy hands... Into thy hands I feel the lashing of the flames! The end of life is like a blazing sunset - The last time colour fills the sky; For what lies beyond is engulfing dark Where even dreams are left to die. Into thy hands... Into thy hands I feel the lashing of the flames!

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Aeons ago, the creation Of man began sculpting itself. Onward they travelled and grew. Centuries passed, climates changed, species dissolved. From the untamed dark cold caves Emerged a primal mind Armed with some basic instincts. Animal, man, machine - primitive mind. Years of development passed, The human race declined. We leap into the era: Animal, man, machine - mechanical mind. The remains of what's left are few As the four footed posture becomes two. From carving stone to carving steel, From crude construction to the ultimate machine. From the untamed dark cold caves Emerged a primal mind Armed with some basic instincts Animal, man, machine - primitive mind. Years of development passed, The human race declined. We leap into the era: Animal, man, machine - mechanical mind. Thousands of years; errors to show What we've done, What we've become. We commence to slowly decompose. Humans thirst for discovery: A decadent force with no ken for excess. Mankind's extinction is assured With the endless involvement of the mechanised race. We'll be superfluous. We'll be overthrown. A path to extinction Of natural life. Animal, man, machine...

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

A searing, thirsty, tattered wreck Staggering, through the abyss. Respite from this suffering: A hope I once dismissed. On a quest for preservation To escape my own negation, I'll employ a novel strategy And plunge into insanity. Bubbles ripple overhead, Temperature starts to cool. The purest water fills my mouth In this divine pool. We have an intellectual reach that No mere bodies can contain. With a leap beyond ancestral bonds Only fragments will remain. Mind now a part of the Experience machine; A sensory extension Beyond all previous comprehension. Bubbles ripple overhead, Temperature starts to cool. The purest water fills my mouth In this divine pool. I slip into insanity. In time I'll shed this skin A golden age is beckoning Once reborn, mind alive, Embrace this future to survive. The gentle pull of the tide, Its sublime ebb and flow, The soothing spray of stars Leads me where I must go. Face down on a distant secluded shore, Death only a memory. Insanity: my sanctuary; Our sanctuary. Through an ever-changing oceanic Flow of information I'll free myself from the Confines of this fleshy prison. Memory assimilation. Thought-process integration. Self-concept reformation. Vestigial disintegration. Bubbles ripple overhead, Temperature starts to cool. The purest water fills my mouth In this divine pool. Technological unification Initiates this new awakening.

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

The sun heats up the skies as seasons change. The heat intensifies while water levels rise. We try to guess nature's way. The giver of life is taking ours away. What we see and what we known above and below: Erosion from rising water flow. Creations we made corroded our sphere. The hole is growing as the end approaches near. Threatening tides over horizons Bequeath the fear with power to clear. The clouds of toxic fumes spread far above our land. Side effects of technological demand Weaken an ancient icy grasp. The polar giants break free at last. Threatening tides over horizons Bequeath the fear with power to clear. We scuttle for the summit With hopes to see the dawn. Sea to summit! There will be no fire. There'll be no more war. Nothing but serenity In the underwater world. The waves pick up the pace. The legions of Neptune charge forth As they surround the helpless land. We dread the end. The flag will soon fall. Earth will crumble drowning us all. Threatening tides over horizon Bequeath the fear with power to clear. We scuttle for the summit With hopes to see the dawn.

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

As I peer into the depth of tranquility Through spiraling mist and towering flame, Obsidian rings become clear to me And from that path a voice screams my name. Split ears screech with deafening tones, Clenched jaws grind enamel away, Eyelids seal with blow torch glows, A wretched figure commands me to stay. The old hag beckons; Now chained to her will. No choice but submission. Is her job to kill? Visuals glow with frenzied pace, Dry throat leaves a bitter taste, Constricted lungs begin to fill With laughter from her shrouded face. A haggard cloaked manifestation Of a hypnagogic delusion? Or supernatural intervention The likes of which we dare not mention? Disembodied mind! Limbs contract while sinew steams Upon the groans of joint-less bones. Fear-gripped heart begins to beg For release from the tyranny Of the hag at the end of my bed.

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

The rusted chains dance in the ash To the echoes of our brothers. The end is the means and no soul Is too lost to taste of its rancid deception. It's when the realms of thought Dictate our steps that we scratch Out the truth of existence. In solve! A new light is born to shield the unscorn children. Coagula! Another page is torn, The desecration of all primal. You! I see right through you and The battalions of blood willing martyrs. How did you trade the branch of knowledge For the seeds of perverse decline? It's when the realms of thought Dictate our steps that we scratch Out the truth of existence. A fleeting idea sanctioned as fact and defended Beyond all reason, the burden of proof is a Bridge built on faith, blinded by downward spirals. A new light is born To shield the unscorn children. Another page is torn, The desecration of all primal. Solve! A new light is born to shield the unscorn children Coagula! Another page is torn.

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

We grew as one through infancy, Inseparable through maturity. Now faced with the threat of annihilation Ideals make way for war time operations. Strobe-light shrapnel tear tissue asunder. My shocked eyes gaze refusing to see. A blood-stained path to my brother reveals His unhealable open wounds frailty. Inconceivable pain, Irrevocable affliction. Powerless am I To make you whole once again. (Panacea!) Powerless am I (Panacea!) To make you whole once again. Petrifying empathy Takes complete control of me. He's involuntarily tethered To these last moments of pain. It may be his last desire To be bathed in friendly fire. A terminal reaction To a hopeless situation. "Brother... Please... Send me on my way." "Brother... Please... Release me from this pain." It seems that even gods on high Refuse to let my brother die. This responsibility now thrust on me, Any burden I'll bear shall become secondary. A fratricide you're empowering To end all your suffering.

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

The orders passed, as news breaks out Officials have declared: "The diplomatic strain was not resolved And once again the peace talks failed." As head of state puts pen to paper, A clearance to attack a new frontier, The nation marvels As the war machine kicks into gear. Mobilization of grim assets, The power of fire and steel Escorted by an entourage of experts, Their one objective is to kill. Ear piercing harmonies of grating metal, The deployment has begun - Commencement of offensive operations. The enemies shall topple one by one. Truth in the hands Of the righteous authorities. The rise of the just. All targets locked and ready, Opponent lurks in unfamiliar terrain. The triggers click and set off the inferno Of yet another bloody, merciless campaign. The earth accepts discarded matter - The ash, the blood, the sweat. The fragments of the fallen stay behind Awaiting their days of lament. No price is too unreasonable When honour is at stake. Blood weighs as much as water To those who don't grieve at the wake. The war machine advances As the money fuels the hungry fire. The power in the hands of those Who clench the power to conspire. Blood on the hands of corrupt authorities The demise of the truth. Miscreant... Miscreant at the helm. The truth will always find a place to hide In the cracks of deceptive formalities While reliable sources rely on rewards In exchange for distorted realities

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

For years I have gazed at a stone wall With no vision of nature and allegiances. From dawn to darkness The inner beast surrounds my thoughts. Absent from entity For one man's greed. My past dominates my rage. His surface must drain. A view of bareness floods my mind. Hate rises like a scorching fire. Banished from delectation, Awaiting a destructive departure. Blackness annihilates my purity. Vengeance controls my serenity. Absent from entity. Absent for eternity. For years I have weakened Where true madness lies. Breeding a diseased bloodthirsty mind. The inner beast will deface yours. Absent from entity For one man's greed. My past dominates his fate. His surface will drain.