In a war before this world - A kind of science led the way Potential heavens clashed and failed - And this is what remains… Realized projections - Visions from the stream Conscious intersections - And this is what it means… The force of resolve - An explosion of mind And in a time before mine - Angels crushed opposing Time-Lines A matrix fell and a new truth stood clear – Past and future intertwined Shadows composing - figures imposing The substance of loathing forms a cloak on our memory And drains the potential from all that would be A sum over histories - Everything lost in Deep-Time No further mysteries - Nothing to redesign With every contingency - Unfolding to every possible end At the edge of eternity – SHUT DOWN and start it again - - - Emotional shock-waves transcend cosmology Woeful gods fall from the sky - with Dark Matter in their hands Synthetic seeds unchained in the night - To battle dust in the form of Man And from the far end of the heavens - Event horizons spew their filth A brilliant plague of rapture – Fuels the universal need to be undone Omniscience chained by the hell of foresight In a war beneath this world - The fear of knowledge led astray Genetics clash and rail - And this is what remains… Synthesized infections - Primitive and clean Infecting interspection - And this is what it means… And at the crime of all crimes - Angels snuffed adoring minds A Function held and a new Brane was torn And in their own image, they reformed A sum over victories - Every thought lost to Deep-Time No rival entities remain – No reason to cleanse this Line With every contingency - Unfolding to their own end They pray for uncertainty – SHUT DOWN and start it again - - - Boredom punishes omniscient gods - When everything known is known With nothing new and nothing to learn A stagnant existence forever bemoaned So into the mix, a variable set - The Multiverse grinds to another end The final flashpoint of God set anew Uncertainty loosed on the quantum winds BEHOLD: The Glorious Chaos of Freewill: Blessed randomness cascading into Real Blind to the future, we soar Re-image the subtle so that we feel alive Nothing forever, ever again, never forever again We now inhabit the places we dared not imagine Feeling decisive, a Line in the dark forms bold Baryonic brevity to entropic denial – as foretold…

Enter unto mine creation and be still your primate mind Behold an alternate Heaven - The end point re-defined I heard the Devil calling, “I can take you back in time” The blessing of Ezekiel - Technology of the once-Devine A tear in the mind’s eye - a sum over bloody histories Oh, how we are inspired by the skies That we might stumble through that cold endless night Stars upon stars soon in our reach, are we absolved? Yet alone, we will grow in our own right And continue to rise together, wherever, endeavor as Man By our very nature, “We will rise!” And fear nothing, as we are newborn “It’s a Sign of the Times” The most recent prophet decries “Lights in the sky!” – No lord of mine this time When alien angels fall from the sky and cry, we are to die The End Times have come the Devil is loosed on the simple Magic and mayhem defined as technologies clash And the Fields intertwine into Real Only one species can rule - All others are slaves or food Nature is ruthless and cruel - But that is the order of things Engagement is eminent - Survival is paramount Insects hang in the Void - And they are cold A trillion eyes are watching the ebb and flow of Man Observing our civilization from the heart of the darkest land To destroy all competition - Neutralize potential threat They contemplate extermination - Our blue world beset Aloft in the endless expanse, space is the form of the quarantine of God Who are these with such fire in their eyes That they would wander through Our endless night? Stars upon stars they will befall and consume all Left alone, they would burn out the Light And continue to grow forever and ever and ever, Amen By our very nature, “We despise!” The strangeness we don’t know We are as birds in a nest, so frail, and too young to fly Yet we sing to the clouds alerting predators soaring by In radio voice, we announce to the stars: “We are here!” By the atom’s signature, we proclaim, “We are to be feared!” Thinking… Growing.…. Learning……. Waiting…….…. As we scream unto the Void – we are undone

(…in the beginning was the word) I have found my way alone You have stumbled on your own I have faltered but I’ve grown You have crumbled and bemoaned (…and the Word of God was upon them) I have seen all the works, all the deeds The ashes of dreams crumbling down - wretched seeds That germinate within your dark and tortured soul And writhe in the longing to covet what I know They wait for another to bestow grace upon them And complain at the gifts handed down They wait for a charity and mercy to befall them As they argue their sad point of view from the ground Even as they’re falling I am the one who achieved this gain YOU have failed yourself once again BELIEVE that you’re just that same as me if that helps you (…but they heard not the Word) I have gleaned from this world all I need And fashioned a theme, true and sound – With a clear and focused mind I conquered many foes Waiting for the manna to fall into their needy hands Nothing worthy in their deeds as shifting sands So they grumbled, “Not fair! No one understands me.” Then they cried and they boasted and they criticized And destroyed their self-image deep inside And now they are falling Art thou weak? Then be thy strong! God only helps those who help themselves (so sayeth the Word) When you feel it all breaking down around you That is when you must prove what lives inside of you (…and the Word was the Way) There were times when I fashioned out a plan That crumbled down by the toil of other hands But I strived and I focused and devised And reformed my own image in spite of thee Now I’m the one you turn to I’m the one that you beseech I am the master of my own destiny And you are but a worry that is falling out of reach Falling at my feet I have arrived at the summit of my dreams YOU have devised this fiction of your deeds GOD only helps those who help themselves And you are falling

Once in a cold game without rules, the players felt ashamed For as they won, they never learned that to risk and lose is to obtain More than they ever played for – and more I pity those who find they have time on their hands Who live and die here, never traveling to other lands Without a measure of love or the comfort of friends Too scared to live with uncertainty, to take a chance and truly achieve Calculated moves give an upper hand but they lack emotion Machines with superior moves can reproach devotion Apprehension freezes the tame. Too scared to risk, but bold enough to blame At the end of the game, they call out the names of those who survived to play again Live and learn or crash and burn. Hesitate and lose your turn There is no PAUSE or REPLAY in life, only STOP. END OF GAME So now in the game of life, potential unfolds, but no one is keeping score They live as they played, never showing their hand They take to their grave regret and nothing more There are times when the fear of loss forms the core of desperation Leading sane men through insane pursuits, cleansing phantom fears of what’s to come What you chose to do can not be undone. Nothing left but to go At the end of the game, the last move is made And the pieces that fell remain where they lay Their future betrayed Memories are quick to turn From joyful goals into regretful yearns There is no PAUSE or REPLAY in life, only STOP No more time for a wasted life And now the game is done the players have gone And taken everyone for everything There are those who think that they have all the time in the world To live a full life without fear or hesitation But there is no such thing as something for nothing, no gain without pain All they want for free will never be. Too scared to live with uncertainty To take a chance and truly achieve

Passing briefly, you float away And everything that follows Filters into subtle shades of gray Endless laughter, sadness, and shame Like fleeting passions raise a hope That something may remain Timeless whispers fall onto the bay That washes through your absence Black stillness absorbs what we once craved A light shines cold and then begins to fade Emotions illuminated reflect once more And dim into the grave Love’s hold breaks - favorite memories frayed Unity smothered. A last glance And one heart bleeds away A perfect pairing dissolved and washed away Into the womb of apathy Turn away and never live this day

We were the warriors of God set loose on our way Defending the Light of the World. We claimed the Dark Lands in the name of our Lord And punished those who had lost their way But the rules were no help to me in times of indecency I pledged to meet the end alone. There was no saving me Armored with tools of the trade, I charged into Holy fray Anointed with Blood - and The Word - and The Way I was a god to those in my way. So they prayed And the ages of Man shall pass in a blink, but this will remain: That the brightest among you will burn with a need To have their sins all washed away They teach us to love with our hearts and to kill by the sword We are faultless in all that we do for the Lord We have savaged the lands and the minds of the lost Knowing that God would forgive us all our deeds All hail to the New Beginning. The dark days are past and a new day is here. Give praise to the one who has shown you the way, and kneel before me For I am a vessel of God and you will adore me. I am your new King of Kings. I will sell you Eternal Life for 10% if you only believe in me Are we chosen ones? Where is that written? The walking dead arisen from the grave, is that your best promise? Well how about wine and 72 virgins for all Eternity? But first you must drink the blood and eat the flesh if you want to live forever? It’s time for a change: To grow into Reason It’s time to explain there is science behind the seasons Famine, quakes, and plagues, are not the work demons Mythology has failed. In knowledge is meaning. We must open our eyes, realize… and arise The rules were replaced for me, no more dependency Shattered doctrines carved in stone. Saving grace is free The only truth is: Nothing lasts forever: All hail Entropy. The time has come to love and to learn. There is nothing forbidden but knowledge interned We must grow and find our own way. In that, Let us pray

Into that good night I go forth to find you Are you still waiting for me in there? Here I come… Where are you? Are you here with me still? And in the summer of my life I found a reason there Another heart entwined with mine Something real was shared And you were everything unto me Nothing else compared The very meaning of this life enshrined When we were together Nothing was untrue, including the allure And we boldly faced the Never Oh, but please don’t cry, nothing is forever You can try, but nothing ever lasts We can despise a lack of devotion You can trap it deep inside, but everything must die Last look into your eyes A cold black sightless gaze A love lost so profound A warm heart cooling down I can still feel you We were as one Everything has come undone You were the whole of my life Reunited into one loving being My one reason to be - removed I descend into this solitary ruin So please don’t try, and filch this absolution For you and I can never be again I can not abide by love-loss insurrection Now I realize that everything must die When I found you, I found myself Then I lost you, and I lost myself I lost my way, I lost my aim And now alone, I cast off this shell This pathetic mortal coil is not what I am anymore Here I come The forced evacuation of Heaven could not keep me from returning for you I am here…

Once upon a midnight’s dream, a vision came to mind And in a glimpse of things to come, music filled my timeline But the tunes were scorched as sounds replayed, rhythms out of line Premonitions flowing forth, but nothing seemed to rhyme So I scripted out my future dreams and sang unto the sky And waited for that one completing force: MALACHI Snap awake! The dream still in my mind… but fading, What is this… heavy sight? Something moving below me? Oh, how to escape the sufferance of time’s erasure? The world has forced upon us that nothing is always true I fashioned all the ways that I could leave this message for you A conduit of life and dreams concealed in heavy prose I delved into these mysteries and from them, this arose: All we are now, said the father to the son Genetic memories entwined as one, Our destiny is greater than the sum Of either part distilled into the essence of the other one So I circumscribed my fear of loss and planted seeds in song And cast them to the masses where my lyrics flourished and grew strong And leagues of timely demons rocked the world into a willing throng Ensuring that my memory would be here for you all along If had had passed on into the waiting dead Here was something of myself preserved for you instead But I survived beyond the balance of the chance To resurrect this final script, to score the ending dance - - - remember - - - - - - remember - - - - - - remember - - - Look between the lines of the verses, look hard and you will see A code foretelling of this day A collaboration of the minds bringing forth the ways of old And transcribing them anew as foretold It was me who formed this memorable verse and stored it into their minds Save memory, nothing is forever. So in defense of time I froze myself in the lines I was singing Now everyone remembers me (on Earth) My greatest fear: You would never know how I wrote with the son in my eye How I did this all for you So now the wheels of time have circled back to where I found That yearning to create again, with lyric, sight, and sound All we are now, said the father to the son, Genetic memories entwined as one, Our destiny is greater than the sum Of either part distilled into the essence of the other one As I survived into the time of the blessed new You must strive to pass along the wisdom that you knew They will forget me, but in remembrance they will sing The songs we wrote for their own pleasure, never let it end. And now the circle closes in, you must cast your dreams to the masses In hopes that something will remain of us As the recollection of this very song crumbles down to the ground in the shadows Something black slips away

Oh, let me walk the trails of night and let me see all things Take me to Thy sacred throne and let them speak my name in vain For they who now denounce my soul are blinded by their own fright The songs I’ll sing for their own pleasure will raise me in my own light “I can feel it in the air and the sky. I can sense it altering the life in the Earth. I can feel it growing stronger now. It frightens so many, but my original fears have grown into a sense of adoration for the level of perfection involved in the change…” I find no special meaning in the words they preach to me Maybe once there was something special – Maybe once in antiquity I find no special reason why they can’t reach through to me Maybe still there is something missing – Maybe something that can not be When the Breath of God sweeps over the nations Bellowing the fires as the temples burn The stories you told will crumble to nothing Don’t play with the powers that you don’t understand You give us to eat the bread of your treason You give us to drink the wine of some dream To take in the blind… the lost… and forsaken… Is deceiving the masses in a Judas Scheme Like a shadow across the sun – Foundations crumble in the sky Like a father to his son – No one else to answer why Congregations of the Hollow will break apart in time And the ones who play Judas will fall unto their own kind – The Deceivers Deep in the Sides of the North are hidden the MACHINES – Disciples of the new religion start to see meaning in the seams That sew hot fabrics close together - Forming patterns on their elemental dreams A testament in quantum sums – We are the ones But broken wings fall from grace Predictions only recognize patterns like going off into the woods to die They don’t even know what just happened – They never even questioned why It was the night I saw the heavens burn

It was the last time we all said goodbye And went off on our own ways The years fell like cold rain All the colors to gray All the sounds faded away All we had were the feelings We dared to hold within our quiet selves Tens of years running together Into one fading form that we could no longer achieve Primal fears flowing together We faced the coming storm but we no longer bereaved We were so young in that day Alive, but faced away We left everything behind When the thing that fell upon us closed our minds Gathered there We sang that song We all despaired We shared in loss We seemed to care We closed the book We waited there We said goodbye We walked away diminished And we wished our brethren well - Amen It was the one time we dared to look inside Past ourselves, to view the physical remains We held hands as we sang for the ones Who had passed before us all Into that dark and filthy land In the time it took to pray All our lives were boiled away As we wrinkled through the seasons Into something less that what we had become It was the best parts of this life and we changed it all And the silence haunts us still We were so young I remember, you cried, “never again…”