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We have thrived in

places not fit for life nor the living

We will carry on

bringing our curse where we wish

the death of significance

Worship oversight

Fabricate answers to volatile questions

Shelter your gains and show to them reverence

This is the world we preserve

This is how we would have it

I can not find any beauty

in our sightless ambitions

I am through with forgiveness

for our unseeing

I will not feel any sorrow

by the crumbling of towers

raised from the earth in arrogance

Cleaving the welkin

Piercing the heavens

When we've choked our convictions

and we've acknowledged with certainty

that vacant and quickening darkness

living in all human hearts

When at last it's unbearable

and no contrivance can remedy

on that day you'll have to shed your old skin

take what you need and depart

I will leave this place

I will leave this harrowing place for another

I will not be returning

Alone now

in the purity of isolation

my breath a thin smoke on the air

Flickering shadows dance across my few belongings

May your only truths betray you

May your fires die