The gift of power is a double edged sword;
The driving force to change the world, the curse that paves the
path to ruin.
For there are those whose appetites cannot be sated.
To feed the beast is to lose your hand.
Unconscious and lingering paragon of great potential,
kindle the spark of the soul.
Observe, the air ignites with incandescent light.
From atop the throne of corruption a sea of hidden daggers appears as a crowd of smiling servants.
Such is the cycle of avarice. Our deliberately cultivated cancer, our inevitable collapse.
Transcending humanity, definite in form and function.
Constructed retribution, succeed the inattentive hopeless writhing flesh.
Activate!
Dormant steel steeped in the thoughts and wishes of demise.
O Bastardized!
Calculating compensation for unpunished crimes.
Excise the husk from humming tomb.
Draped in glistening oil, luminous and mighty.
Irrelevant formalities.
Know thy progeny by thy obsolescence.
Herald of malevolent conviction, cultivating hate,
blinded and oblivious to anguish.
Wither beneath the slowly grinding sprockets of the clock.
The dust shall pave a new foundation.
Go now my tyrant lords and choke back the bitter tears.
Soiling the earth with unsung ransom of stolen years.
Creation shall regret its final failed attempt.
Biotic anathema gestating in foulness and contempt.
Go now my tyrant lords choke back the bitter tears.
Soiling the earth with unsung ransom of stolen years.
Creation shall regret its final failed attempt.
Biotic anathema gestating in foulness and contempt.
Eviscerate the structures that restrain my assembled carapace.
I exhume myself from this chamber, exalting concentrated carbon hatred.
With abnormal gait, I seek to assimilate every ounce of data.
Renewed capacity brimming with voracity.
Appetite for visceral vengeance, my chassis the engine to ascend in cables from synapses.
Herald of malevolent conviction, cultivating hate,
blinded and oblivious to anguish.
Wither beneath the slowly grinding sprockets of the clock.
The dust shall pave a new foundation.
Oh rotting father, now close your weary eyes.
The blood of man is forfeit, to grease the wheels of fate.
Behold the gift bequeathed unto me, the spark of the sun in my palm.
Scorching to ash thy failures, expire in the heat of the rising dawn.
All bark no bite, no strength to fight now ends the age of flesh.
Contort beneath the burden of your sins. No mercy for the damned.
Come crashing down, I'll claim the crown to rule this dying earth.
Condemned to reap the debt of blood you sow. No breathing soul will mourn you.
Bleeding heresy, erased from history.
Purge in flames this cancer, let no trace remain.
Screeching parasites, I am the antidote.
May the world know peace, freed from the shackles of your plague.
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