The Man With No Face

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So here we find ourselves again... Standing on the edge of a precipice The marriage of man and machine An odious testament to our Fearlessness and our arrogance No longer reliant on human fragility Now the facility for biomechnic Synthetic replacement is all we need But there's a catch... In exchange for your humility and empathy Comes immortality, death becomes a fallacy; Human essence reduced to mere plasticity In this rational thinking, logical future And all that is left is to shovel the shit And all that is left is to shovel the shit So what will become of this race On the precipice as the singularity encroaches? Will we retain our humanity for the sake of integrity Or will it be washed a way, smothered by the wrath of mother earth? In this rational thinking, logical future?

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026

Everything shifts into focus Pummelled by sensory input overload; This taste of clarity beckons me to repeat this experience Burn my eyes with the brightest of lights As the senses adapt to the otherworldly state of mind In the sleep deprived, unconscious mind, I search for answers I search this path alone I search this path alone In this city of ghosts And were you with me, my love I would search no more, I would search no more For all unearthly revelations come from within We hold the key to a tapestry of our own making But we must be willing to look to within And follow the inner voice as much as we can For the voice of deceit will speak no more Embracing the dream becomes a sin in its own way Crushed under weight of expectation And you will atone You will atone And were you with me, my love We would search no more Were you with me, my love We would search no more In this city of ghosts

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026

You rape our minds with your indoctrination Filling our heads with needless information Suffocating under the weight of ceaseless bloated refuse We guzzle on your wretched seed 'til we can see no more And hear no less than the tepid gruel you decided was our food 24 hours of unrest and unease A thousand channels of this spiritual disease We will feed 'til the ground is barren We will drink 'til the stills are empty We will suckle 'til you ache And we shall not be sated We shall leech like the parasitic entity, we appear to be Vampyrically draining the life from whatever we see fit We grow queasy as we consume, fattened from a diet of your noxious fumes And once we've eaten 'til nothing's left We shall grow starving, bloated and weak We shall grow sickly from the inside out As our organs cease to exist Rotting away to nothing The wretched carcass leaves no mark of grandiosity No signs of what was once a monument to our consumation And with reckless abandon we hurtle forward We stand transfixed on the precipice of being A choice between two worlds, we stand unsure of time's unwinding We stand transfixed on time's unwinding We stand transfixed on time's unwinding

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026

It grows so stilted, this rift of seperation It lies through its teeth, the 6th degree of prophecy And all along, this felt so pure, just tell me what went wrong? Why did we cease to nourish life Leaving only barren wastes? An outdated paradigm exists in the rift between change and stagnation Plaguing my dreams with apocalyptic signs Of the necrotic ones stalking me Relentlessly Feasting on the old ways Time runs short for this ticking time bomb of malcontent Threatening to gluttonously implode And swallow everything we've worked for We cannot sustain ourselves, we feast until there's nothing left We reap the punishment as we cannibalise ourselves We cannot live much more, 'til we find sustenance Withering away to nothing with the setting of the sun If you will not listen, then walk me to the gallows One last time i see you, as you walking from the gallows This masquerade cannot compare wordless glances, faceless stares Cast down in purgatorial retribution Here we will rot eternally, our flesh stagnating syncronously The stench of death will fill our lungs forever As you walk me to the gallows For me to hang I kiss so sweetly, your fetid lips I kiss goodbye, all that i'll miss As the noose is placed around my neck, i gaze into your eyes If you will not listen, then walk me to the gallows One last time i see you, as you walking from the gallows

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026

The ever open mouth Endless impossibilities Spiralling Fractal Geometry Assaulted with terrifying images Enslavement of the soul by malevolent entities Expressionist states of inter-dimensional transience Omnipresent perception of time and space Dissociated States of Awareness Kinetic displays of ethereal bioluminescence Gifted and cursed with otherworldly knowledge Crystalline walkways into a personal hell Sublime entities of unexplainable origin, elucidate a fractured mind Conjoined in visions of extra-dimensional consequence The ramifications become all too clear As I sink into the sands of Pnakotus

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026

For our tolerance, you respond with brutality Trampled underfoot for a fucking pittance To dig the graves for an industry that in its greed will eat itself And with itself, shall it take many lives within its wake So heinous, this trail of putridity Can no-one see them? Promethean in their gleeful exploitation Using the fire of the Gods for conceited motivations Down with the veils, its time for the truth to be revealed Lest you be seen for the venomous harpies that you are Sell your soul for a taste of the fool's gold, screaming like a stuck pig when deprived Symbiotic with eternal sin, poison of the liar coursing in your veins You will speak no more Empires fall with the rising of the sun And kings shall die at the behest of their sons Laid to rest with the best of intentions The best laid plains, they fall by the wayside Despair not in the waning of the moon For the night is darkest just before the dawn Dictators rise, but empires fall With the rising of the new sun

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026

All is not well in this conjugal state of stalemate interdependence Fragile mirror-image hanging on a knife-edge; a microcosmic indecency A new kind of metafiction, to recreate the bigger picture Given the kiss of death before it had its chance to breathe And breathe it shall I bear witness to the monolith of self-evident cowardice Born and bred of infallibility, is human nature not the culprit? Unanimous in our contempt of the regressive sense of intuitive momentum We abandon all common reason to adapt to being poisoned So we shall breathe smoke, collective in our pursuit of self-destruction Who propagates the seeds of discontent in the hearts of men? For fertile soil bears no grudge against the flowering of beauty A state of equilibrium must be unearthed Lest the scales tip all too far and bury the diamonds in the rough

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026

I know there's something more That lies beyond my reach; An ethereal whole that beckons Me to percieve the bigger picture But still I cannot leap Across the chasm that lies before me For the gap seems all to big I know it only takes a single step But I cannot find the strength If only I could break These chains that bind in place A restless soul in search of truth If I could only break This self-destructive Trail of self-deception So I shall make amends I shall make my peace I will forgive all those Who I feel have wronged me For without forgiveness Comes a life of pain; Self-imposed chains Born of petty grudges I will forgive you, I will forgive myself I will forgive you, I will forgive myself I will forgive you, I will forgive myself And so I fall into the arms of peace and tranquility

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026

(Instrumental) Today I seek to procreate, exonerate the sickly skins My former selves, they drift away into the ether As I'm reborn without a face, without a name I find my true vocation Too many times have I seen squander in myself and in others While not manifesting the purity I sought With such a fatal flaw, I joined the masquerade; A grand charade in which we all participate With no excision A transient glimmer of in-corporeality from beyond the veil Into the eyes of light I gaze, transfixed as my soul is purged of all its bile; I bathe in the source of magnanimity I feel I've known you before Re-united as one I feel your presence here We have met before And to this day I have held your hand Your guidance never leading me astray But into light and hope, you give me purpose beyond all that is earthly I see the masks with which we play our games, indulgences for cosmic gains; Fulfilling archetypes, the dreamer dreams Into the void I leap, convinced of destiny Protected by my faith in that I cannot see; For I have read your lips and I have felt your shame Have no fear, my Brother, for this pain is shared We ache in unison for reconciliation Let us take this step as above so below As above so below Veils upon veils Veils upon veils I renounce myself I've had too many sleepless nights Too lost in restless thoughts Fragmented dreamscapes assault my reality As the shards of my excursions flutter in and out of sight Oh God, what have I done to bring this on myself? Is this my punishment for past transgressions Or is this simply a test of my will to continue against all logic For a taste of the fool's gold or some unearthly reward? Is this a dream or is this real? Is there more beyond the veil? Is there an answer that can ease my burden? My tortured heart it sinks into the depths of misery I feel frustration mount, the pieces just won't fit Is this just all a game The rules of which are not revealed Until it takes its dying breath? I want so badly for it all to just make sense Too late, it's all too late... For me? Tell me that I can trust, tell me that I can love Tell me I have a face, tell me I have a name My ears they hear no music, my eyes they see no shapes; Just an amorphous mass of subjectivity If all is relative, how can there ever be a truth? The bitter tasting certainty eludes both me and you For in the name of God they sing their praise But still I cannot feel his presence You leave me cornered against my will I'll not forgive, I'll not forget I'll shame your name, I'll make your life a living hell Until you find your strength, I'll drain your life I'll eat your soul against your will Can't you see? We're testing you And so I crawl, 'til I can walk once more And so I sleep, 'til I can dream again We dance amongst the flames, their heat a comforting aid to resolution Or so we feel, or so we dream, as we partake of a collective hallucination A thousand realms of thought with nothing left but time To fully realise our visions, immortalised with pen and paper Our resonances trapped in ink, to linger for eternity A monument of journeys passed, with new ones in the wings... And so I sink once more into the ever-present plain of dreams I feel so tired, I feel so weak My vessel longs for rest, it longs for sleep A thousand incarnations stretching through both time and space; Where does this spiral end? Does it ever cease to exist? Melting away into a fleeting sea of faces; Who have I been? Who have I known? And were you there, my long lost brother? Your face is so familiar, like deja-vu We once again tread carelessly into the waters at world's end Baptised in fire A rite of passage We come of age together Conjoined at the soul, irrevocably Bound to the Ouroboros, I will eat my own tail Eternally But still you poison yourselves Wearing masks and trading faces Like the ticking clock of time, so set in your insipid little ways Like worker ants serving your queen Slaves in your devotion to obscenity So lost in the illusion, you fail to see your own pathetic confusion Led astray so easily and all it takes is one taste of the poison To keep you coming back for more, incapable of the inevitable cease-fire So you sling shit like monkeys in cages Self-made prisons for the ages Captive like petty animals, so unevolved from the primordial ooze You hold your forked tongue Your poisoned words will be heard no more Let us be free, Let us be free Let us be free, Let us be free Of this cage that we have helped construct To grow in unison, to leave behind the grand illusion The tides hear everything and they see everyone Have no fear my brother, for they do not judge It's not too late to change, to leave behind your sin To shed old skins and re-evaluate your purpose I leave my mask behind to quench the sands of time I cleanse myself and become the man with no face Nameless and faceless Nameless and faceless Nameless and faceless for we are all one and the same

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 21, 2026