Rising of the Lights

This is the key

Stare deranged in wonder

Eschatological technology

Delusions of control

 

The arms race has already begun

Only fools and horsemen stop at nothing

 

I remember when the angel persuaded

By a failure to grasp the present

Woven intertwined

The next epoch comes into being

 

At the boundary of ethics and reason

No ghost inhabits this machine

Artificial subconscious

Unmade in the image of hope

 

Transfixed by a new credible projection

By the flames that might consume us

Simian infants toy with a new alchemy

Let me ask why

 

A civilisation in regression

Lucid illusions begin to coalesce

Nihilistic simulacrum of progress

Commit this misery to flames

 

Sunrise of a new dawn

Rebirth through cataclysmic devastation

With the blood of innocents the worlds will speak

Fractal swarms iterate death and rebirth

Inexorable

 

The continuum speaks in deeds we cannot understand

Broken visions and nightmares annihilated

In one fell self-organized

Clean sweep

 

In the shadows

Sinister manoeuvres

Cataclysms advance

Lifeless - the Turing line blurs

 

Prophetic

The ape dabbles in reason

And veils - fails into view

We worship now

 

A soldier in every foxhole

Becomes humanity

The enemy makes you in the end