Natural Mass Asphyxiation

Invisible, undetectable
Insidious, inescapable

Where do you flee
when there's no air to breathe?
No mortal can outrun
the anoxic catastrophe

Seeping through the bowels
of the earth, it accumulates
Under colossal pressure,
the limnic depths saturate

Bursting as a column of fume,
the deadly plume extricates
A manifestation of doom,
the mazuku incarnates

Choke out all life
Extinction localized
Oxygen deprivation
Natural mass asphyxiation

Incapable to comprehend
why you suffocate
Panic descends

Where do you flee
when there's no air to breathe?
No mortal can outrun
the anoxic catastrophe

You reach out
for anyone, but everyone
suffers the same
hypercapnic fate

Petrified, you come to realise
this is the moment you expire,
the very instant that you die