Void Walker

This way rides a pale horse
Stalker in shadow devoid of form
Pestilence falls upon the land
Shelter in place or face the storm

Maleficent
Cataclysmic

Entrench retreat embrace the stagnation
Or into the breach embrace the contagion

Feed the flames of industry
Stack your dead upon the pyre
Unmatched human tradegy will never stop us now

Too many replicates
Too many in denial
What chance now

Like dormant seeds we lie in wait in suspended
Animation, not feeding but protected from, the passing conflagration

Guillotines for our hypocrite masters
Rules for us but not for them
Feeble inept adulterous apologists
A kick in the teeth a slap in the face

Avaricious fucking pigs
Profiteering on misery

Too much corruption
Unfathomable greed
What change do we have

Like dormant seeds we lie in wait in suspended animation
Not feeding but protected from, the passing conflagration

With limbs that waste to atrophy, souls that fade to unreality
Into spectral forms diffusing, still living but unmoving

Forgive me friend
I could not see
What this epoch
Had done done to me
Shade of a man
I had become
This is demise
This life undone
I can't contain you no not this time
Damn me for judging this thing that you've done

This is demise posing as life
A cadaver walking but not aware of the advanced state
Of decomposing belly bloating

This is demise posing as life a corpse breathing
But can smell the putrifying, flesh is graying
Skin alive with maggots seething

Forgive me friend but I just couldn't see
The soul that this epoch had taken from me
A shade of a man is what I'd become
Hell mend me for grudging this thing that you've done