The Dead World

This world was dead from the start

When the ancients first found this planet

It was nothing but a wasteland

A roiling sea

Chaos and entropy

Uninhabited

Uninhabitable

No sign of life

A million miles away from home

No light to guide

Transplanting the seeds of hope

They moved the mountains into place

Terraformed the surface to their will

They sculpted oceans out of desert space

Flawless design in each detail

(This world was dead from the start)

A formless void

A toxic tempest

A new beginning

Within their hands

No sign of life

A million miles away from home

No light to guide

Transplanting the seeds of hope

They carved the rivers out of dust

Transplanted forests where they stand

Broke up the fallow planet's crust

Injected life into the land

No way to see it then

No way to predict

Hidden beneath the skin

The host could not detect

No way to see it then

No way to predict

Hidden beneath the skin

The host could not detect

There is a curse upon the water

And now it lives within us all

It is a blight that will devour

It will devour us all

Lost forever

Lost inside our own

Flesh

Flesh

No sign of life

No light to guide