The Truth About the World, and Everything Else Humanity has Forgotten

i. genesis begins with a whisper,

a mutter no one is alive to hear

yet everyone pretends to understand anyway. there is truth in the inception of

the universe: that death does not

overlook, and that the world

continues to spin regardless. 

ii. infinity is incomprehensible, 

the expanse of space a graveyard 

of failed missions to understand 

it. the human mind is not capable 

of grasping how small our kind 

is compared to everything that 

lies beyond. what can be gained 

does not equal what can be 

lost, because we can lose everything 

and our mother and the loss 

will still be endless. 

iii. immortality is a myth to 

explain mortality, just as 

absolute power is paradoxical. 

the inevitability of the end is

the only reason we want to avoid it.

the days blink by like

lightning, a millisecond to Gaea's 

eternity, and our eternity is wasted 

when we try to live forever. 

we fail, and time marches.

iv. deliverance is one part 

liberation and three parts too late. 

illusions come when we least 

expect them, our dreams are 

only what we want them to show us, 

and even salvation cannot 

free us from greed. (freedom

from pain does not equal freedom from suffering.)

everyone is starving for something,

and it does not have to be food. 

v. every exodus comes with 

sacrifice. every revelation leaves 

a body burning, every funeral 

leaves another dead in the wake. 

everyone leaves with the intention

of never returning, and half of 

us keep our promises. 

we keep walking, and see nothing. 

we keep walking. 

vi. the earth revolves around 

the sun, the moon revolves 

around the earth, and we 

revolve around ourselves. 

so does everyone else. 

(this is the reason for destruction, 

the reason we trick ourselves 

into believing we deserve more 

because we are better, when 

really, we have always been the same. 

death is equal, 

death is predetermined, 

and we already 

cease to breathe.)