Rising Of The Lights

This is the key Stare deranged in wonder Eschatological technology Delusions of control The arms race has already begun Only fools and horsemen stop at nothing I remember when the angel persuaded By a failure to grasp the present Woven intertwined The next epoch comes into being At the boundary of ethics and reason No ghost inhabits this machine Artificial subconscious Unmade in the image of hope Transfixed by a new credible projection By the flames that might consume us Simian infants toy with a new alchemy Let me ask why A civilisation in regression Lucid illusions begin to coalesce Nihilistic simulacrum of progress Commit this misery to flames Sunrise of a new dawn Rebirth through cataclysmic devastation With the blood of innocents the worlds will speak Fractal swarms iterate death and rebirth Inexorable The continuum speaks in deeds we cannot understand Broken visions and nightmares annihilated In one fell self-organized Clean sweep In the shadows Sinister manoeuvres Cataclysms advance Lifeless - the Turing line blurs Prophetic The ape dabbles in reason And veils - fails into view We worship now A soldier in every foxhole Becomes humanity The enemy makes you in the end