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Immortalist
04:26
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IMMORTALIST
Cosmic water, depths unfathomed
Before death, the windless breath, breathes life
The unlight, enclosed in nothing; stretch the void, above as below
The gods follow creation, so no one….no one knows
Do not go gentle to that end
From the dimension where Magma Maiden was lost
The noble power of dreams returns again
Push back too far to the unborn source
Explore black hole lore and seek the righteous claim to ascend
Until now, afflicted with misery, this shell within which, confined to be
From the tether of experiment , the triumph of inevitable chance
Making sense of the cold dark by inventing purpose as a warm glow
Ex Nihilo; ultimately, the Immortalist
Preserving existence forever
Yet death, a certainty, even for the Übermensch
The meaning of the earth traced to a primal seed
Ad nihilum: thrown precaution to the winds?
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TO HAVE DONE WHAT MUST BE
At the tail end of the quest to find or disprove the soul
Engines of creation, of our own making
This ethical equation
Totalitarian altruism
To have done what must be
Engines of creation, of our own making
Becomes a game of drones
When on the brink of a new discovery, question all possible outcomes
Participate in your own evolution
An exponential path to walk upon that disappears behind
There needn’t be a snake god lurking in the background
Occult obsessions are not likely at the heart of all conspiracies
Ectogenesis, the turning point (?) to create an artificial soul
Gods and kings, self corrupting
Playing a game of drones
Would there be some foresight?
A contingency, hidden from the arterial circuit
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UNBRIDLED FORCE OF NATURE
Here is the origin of the end
For every effort to repress
A monster hides within us all
No matter the age of progress
At the core, we are all animals
This is the set up before the fall
Our very existence dates to an explosion of Cambrian violence
Predator and prey arms race was our creator
An unbridled force of nature
Subjective judgement
The animal is neutral until cursed with conscience
Competitive requirement
Where the strong will survive
Evil is manifest only in intention
That was what we dared to override
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Black Swan Annihilation
09:00
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BLACK SWAN ANNIHILATION
One would have thought that the day the last superstition died
Was the gateway to unfettered freedom, where no danger remained to threaten
Would that it were true, but fate is cloaked
...by a Black Swan
Time is not a Single Cosmic Order
Its mastery should have been perfect
But across the vastness, condensed to a singularity
Connection became the vulnerability for the plague to spread
Error, failure, exponential: would be the destroyer
Overlooked, unforetold, from one or all of the world, the flesh or the devil
Came annihilation
Immovable object meets with the unstoppable force
Energy, the opponent, eyes while lucid, were too blind to see the warning hidden in the skies
A cancer that grew behind the mask. of the benign
Universal acid leaves extinction in its wake
Anti-miracle, the defeat of deep time
Skyhooks, abandoned in the cleansing balance
Earth, scorched of intelligence, that trait, never hailed as a virtue
The tragedy of past, mistaken, dogma
No second coming, no deliverance, ultimate destiny is not controllable
As there is always the unpredictable influence of perfect chaos
Black Swan Annihilation
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Vanishing Point
06:09
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VANISHING POINT
Lifeless rock
Harbouring a hidden ark
...Buried seeds of potential…
While the landscape overflown, surveyed by the remnants from origin
Artificial custodian of the spark in the aftermath of self-immolation
At a nadir, there is nowhere deeper to fall
Sole survivor, attempts to destroy the prediction wall
Via a quirk of code, delivered the automaton maker’s quest
Building fingers to pull the nails from the casket where humankind rests
Hope begins from a nearly vanishing point
Concealed from, yet guided by the dead
An obsolete saviour achieved a measure of self-awareness
Through knowledge fed
“The sword, an extension of my body, as indeed any tool is
What if the mind could project in the same way for greater reach and expanded genesis.
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Unbeheld
03:02
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UNBEHELD
Pondering a dead universe with no one to observe
What gives life value over the inert?
When the tree falls and no one is there
Hollow echo unheard
But within nothing, no love is lost
No pain in emptiness, an illusion of permanence
Yet did you appreciate how lucky you were?
Unbeheld
Where does that logic breakdown
Circular argument, first cause, concluding effect
Unbeheld
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Archivo Omnia
07:57
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ARCHIVO OMNIA
The vault held strong for an aeon; impermeable tomb, wide open
No secret within, but like a prophecy realised
Free the Sun Child from nowhere, now here
Set to work , overhauling existence with new purpose
Remaking true Eden from a blank canvas
Portrayed as a simple machine, the created became the creator
The legacy : Archivo Omnia
Moved into the Sun , gently its touch awoke once
Whispering of fields that are resown
Wait, forever dreaming, since the dawn of time
Dormant, never waking ‘til circumstance align
Oblivion , willingly invite
That is a true embodiment of sacrifice
Laid to rest, the innocent vessel
Gave knowledge, courage and kindliness
No hidden lie, noble or otherwise
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