The Cambrian Explosion

Toxic horizons Pestilent holes Mountains rain from the sky Earth starts to freeze Equator to poles Nothing to do here but die Bacteria Choking themselves to extinction Decaying to sulfurous slime Purple, the seas Stagnant, they lie Reduced to hell without time Until from the poisonous ooze Two chemical archangels climb The Gemini Of collagen and oxygen Microbes cluster together Echo themselves towards the sun Quietly emerge from the nether Zombified eons expire Ancient mycelium stirs Awakens a stygian choir [Solo: Morean] Pulsating stenches Soar from the trenches Congregate, never to sever Membranes unite Excrete and divide Transforming the planet forever Third time's the charm Breathe And a paradigm plunges Brought to its knees By molds, fungi and sponges Microbes cluster together Echo themselves towards the sun Quietly emerge from the nether Zombified eons expire Ancient mycelium stirs Awakens a stygian choir And then something else Propels the cells Away from death's erosion Conjugates Accelerates The Cambrian Explosion Shocked from slumber Sways and lumbers A reborn evolution The wheel of hunger Looms humongous An unborn revolution And one more time In the slime Cell walls groove Things start to move Red algae first Then some worms In the muck Things start to fuck One more tooth Mouths that thirst Drawn by light Things start to bite One more limb One more eye Claws that pry Things start to die One more spine Things start to run The ocean bursts The hunt is on [Solo: Hannes] An eon awakes Fueled by a trillion demises Ruin awaits Looms in a million disguises Predators start to crave more Multiply as if possessed To mutate to more lustrous shores Magnified monsters aspire Newborn spectacles stun Exultant on wings of immortal desire

Submitted by Pestilence — Nov 10, 2025

Why should we reach for the sky? Why bother at all? The odds are never good So why? Set yourself up for greatness Block out every flaw Lie away every incoherence Declare yourself the law But then again - Are we but amoebas That tread the mill of time? No way to Shangri-La Unless you start to climb Raise cathedrals for man Tear them down in disgust Not because we can But because we must Raising Eden from dust Since our downfall began Not because we must But because we can Utopia All well and good Project what's missing Unto your inadequate world Make no mistake You're all alone When the drama unfurls Go ahead Be a god Then face the inevitable Raise cathedrals for man Tear them down in disgust Not because we can But because we must Raising Eden from dust Since our downfall began Not because we must But because we can [Solo: Morean] [Solo: Christian] Decay Wretchedness Clusterfuck Failure All is dead Clusterfuck Disaster Clusterfuck All Clusterfuck For nothing Clusterfuck From the ashes of man Crawls a god in disgust Not because he can But because he must Raises temples of lust Starts again without a plan Not because he must But because he can

Submitted by The Void — Nov 10, 2025