They raised their spires upon our skeletons, a cement hymn
To a deity forged from digits, drifting through the void
I tread the lattice where specters barter tomorrow for essence
And every glowing pane forms a strand of their dominion
They peddle liquid in plastic while toxins fill the spring
A tale of champions, yet silence the telling
Of the snake, of the plunge
Of the bonds they coiled around everyone
I read the emblems in brands, the lines in the blueprints
A architecture of rule, old and exquisite
They hold the fluid that drafts statutes, the metal that purchases ballots
A quiet wearing-away, a vessel taking water
They name it advance, name it liberty, name it needed hurt
Yet I perceive only the string-puller, whirling through the storm
Of emergencies, of endless conflicts
A fractured planet for fractured souls, a signal they transmit
Via every track, reel, banner you absorb
Sowing kernels of suspicion and dread, a harsh kernel
They desire you frail, splintered, clawing for fragments they discard
While they gorge on your losses, realms expand
From darkness they observe, lids that never close
They believe us trapped, yet they err, I believe
For essence cannot be purchased, life-force cannot be leased
And every falsehood they speak becomes celestial debt
For them to settle someday, judgment riding the breeze
When the colossus rises, disorder may commence
Not by cry, not by firearm, not by banner raised
But quiet knowing within the world’s core
We are no herd, no flock of theirs
We are predators beyond the barrier, here to slip
Through fissures in their base, empty corridors
Rip down the hangings that adorn their chambers
My proclamation, affidavit of fury
Flipping the leaf
Examining the model, fracturing it
Every stronghold of their scheme a falsehood
Igniting, world-ending verbal artillery
Shattering the noise of fabricated insanity
Diabolic contortions in fiscal maneuvers
Zealot for reality, methodically unpredictable
When I crush it, the planet’s weave will register
Damned alarm, monumental, hellish stunt
Unraveling the workings of rulers, financiers
With verse that is flame to combustible chants
They cannot endure it, eruptive in speech
Strategic strike, absolute, verified
Renegade, brutal with syntax, calculation
They label the farce “road to liberty”
Guiding innocents to the blade, the predator notices
Seer of the unprofitable, dregs of the cask
Dread in their citadels, flaw in their flaw
Each sound a precise cut with exactness
Choice to torch the span, sear custom
Destruction, impact with the vast deception
Verdict is their charter pure mastery
Forcing the apparatus to collapse
Narrative spoken in blaze, metal, witness
They issue sheets, slender and verdant, vow in pigment
Vow they shatter the moment you believe
Worth is illusion, concept behind eyes
They render empty, abandon famished, nearly gone
Possess clinics, remedies they withhold
Possess soil, atmosphere, heavens, hovering all around
Orbiters track you, information you inhale
No patch of globe they will not reclaim
Index, dissect, possess you fragment by fragment
Until you are digit, essence ends
Become their own, automaton in ideal colony
Instructed to hunger for what leaves you barely living
Sweetness, spectacle, thrifty, throwaway
Render toxin palatable, unforgivable
Queue for the next hit, next diversion
Next ballot, battle, erasure
Of almost-grasped facts, realities near
Gleaming lure flashed, toxic portion swallowed
Handed idols of mud, trained to bow
Instructed agony was honorable, authentic
Frailty excellence, offer the other side, supreme insight
Not stance of humble, but defeated, cursed
Decline the taper, decline the lifted palm
Yield to apparatus, falsehoods, restraints
Ember that kindles blaze, utterance that utters titles
Of those working the controls, concealed in shadow
Monarch of emptiness, imprinting
Upon the sphere they sought to shatter, chronicle they compose
Unrepentant, raw, elemental radiance
Permit them marble chambers, exchanges, terror
Tally empty currency while fate approaches
Move among you, I am you, fury in ribs
Unvoiced notion you fear to utter, probing existence
Sovereign of nations, ruler of unbound
Specter within the apparatus, ichor they cannot spill
Close of the start, reality they cannot obliterate
Bear circlet of spines and wrath, grin upon visage
Realm nowhere, everywhere
I alone its sovereign, never bow...in their abyss