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Charles
02:49
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I am creation
I once believed in providence
But a man in control of his destiny is like an ant woven by the spider it never knew
I am entropy
We mortals are confined by time
The unwinding coil that returns us to dust
But even dust finds purpose in this physical realm
Just as the shadows and the dark matter that we breathe
I have collapsed
Dwelling with brothers and sisters in gaseous black clouds
Flowing together in singularity
Void of all sense
I am entropy
I am every living thing before it came to be
I have shattered heaven
I am creation
I am entropy
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2. |
Vatican City
04:40
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December 8, 1941
Destination: Vatican City, Rome
It was the day after Pearl Harbor
The day my life changed forever
The scientists insist, I will be the first super-human
I am the glorified mutant
To be one with the shadows
To effortlessly know thy enemy
To have the next six steps in mind
An ability that man can only dream of
I once heard when giving to others, do so in secret
That's been my life in the corps
I've given blood, sweat, tears, and sanity
I've landed now, greeted by men in suits and the lifeless stare of laboratory masks in the distance
I had to remind myself why I was here
To change the world as the unspoken savior
When properly executed. I'll possess the ability to mimic surrounding atoms in regulated lapses
Systematically gathering enemy intelligence, to eliminate their chain of command
The laboratory men began to prep me for the procedure
I lay stiffened on the slab limbs restrained
Enthralled in the chamber accompanied by vapor and exhaust, my soon to be brothers
The scientists insist, I will be the first super-human
I am the glorified mutant
Banish this physical vessel and dispel my flesh
Where I will dissipate into my surroundings as camouflage
Dispel flesh
Where the laws of physics will all be bent
Allowing me to exist cloaked within the laws of chemistry
I began to vomit enormous amounts of black mass
Spewing forth gaseous murk
The siphons around me violently shatter
As gas ruptures through my pores
Smoke fills the air
Releasing the seething fumes
Clouding throughout the room
My new form drifts away
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3. |
God Narcotic
06:09
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It all happened so suddenly
I was floating backwards through a black tunnel of nothingness
I, but a speck of pure awareness (in a lost and dismal over world)
I felt myself being pulled into hyperspace, by a pod of souls
Solar beacons streamed from my fingertips
Ultraviolet light dripping from my mouth
My existence, one of the stars
The ethereal vista I found myself in was overwhelmingly fascinating
It was seemingly an altered dimension, one of indescribable complexity
For even the air around me was visible, like some sort of super intelligent message
And orbs of brilliant light continuously cascaded down from the sky
The experience was somewhat catastrophic
For I soon realized it wasn't simply a trance, but maybe I'd crossed over into the afterlife
I accepted the fact, that whether I was dead or alive - this was still consciousness
Perhaps in a dark realm of sentient existence
One that felt eerily divine
As if this celestial benediction was but a hoax
Regardless, I was a supreme being there
Where streams of uninhibited imagination were ushered by my will
Like a deity conjuring its throne in limbo
One of undeniable proportions that would leave me condemned, to oblivion
Then insurmountable fury began to burn
Throughout my soul
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4. |
Helix Altar
01:11
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5. |
Umbra Mortis
03:41
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I'm greeted by shadows and fog, with a dimming light overhead
I feel deathless and eager to unleash this unlimited potential
I am nacreous
I am murk, beyond the sun
Iridescent at will, or as absent as the empty night sky
I am earth and the waters that are held within it
I am the limitless winds that exists unseen
I'm the epoch of this bastard multiverse
A dismal nightmare latching unto all
Ubiquitous and infinite
I'm greeted by shadows and fog, with a dimming light overhead
Burning throughout this enervated planet
For it's importance has now been compromised
For I am the air you breathe and every sequence of yoru existence is now a result of me
For infinity
I, now a shade of reality, latching unto all
Ubiquitous and infinite
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6. |
Flesh Dispel
10:20
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Between the lines of shadows and dust
A fluorescent beam of light emits from beyond
Pouring seething columns of distorted shapes
Oscillating throughout this prismatic vortex of celestial spheres
Creating a blurring vista of disarray in loathsome profusion
I've lived 300 billion lifetimes simultaneously within linear intervals of stolen time
Merging the past, present, and future into one
What rapture, to subsist in perpetual supremacy
This feeling is more than I ever wanted
I'm hearing colors and seeing sounds
And then...
Silence
Blindness
Suppression of sense
This ebony mass engulfs my soul
As I spiral throughout the abyss of expiration
Augmenting kaleidoscopic ruin
Ionizing throughout this poly-chromatic plateau of non-existence
As animation is restored
I am surrounded by a luminous chaos
In which I slowly dissolve
Disintegrating sinews into orbit
While I am devoured by the void in a flurry of inconceivable sequences
I burn through the cosmos
As birth and death occur at once
Penetrating the walls of existence
Absorbing infinity
To conquer mortality
I am encompassed by hallways of dimensions
Pseudo realities, each leading to astral damnations
Where the flesh is condemned and the elements reign crowned with obscurity
A continuous array of ashes hover overhead
The totality of human thought beyond the speed of light
My ethereal form liquefies into plasma and then I slowly dissolve
Dispelling my eternal being into limitless abstraction
A fathomless ascendance into illusory dominion
There is nothing left to embrace, for now I am all
Every feasible quantum outcome has materialized within my Stygian evolution
The paramount distention has now been completely exhausted
A wave-function collapse is inevitable
I have become decoherence itself - an inter-dimensional harbinger of self-ruin and bane
I am now dead on the inside by virtue of everything being dead on the outside
What a marvel it was
To proclaim authority over the multiverse
And pluck the strings of all phenomena
Conquering the unknown
I've seen every corner of heaven
I've felt the furnace of hell
But this was all just a death hex
And the high was a spell
I began to vomit enormous amounts of black mass, which encompassed the paradise around me
Blackening it all with ire until I could perceive no more
As I observe the occurrence of every single event throughout the course of all time
All in the blink of an eye
Dispel flesh
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7. |
White Noise
06:33
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