The Last Witness

The horizon draws close with frightening haste to suffocate us with the weight of our self-destructive legacy Ghastly, the song of the panicking sirens deafeningly proclaims the terminal stage of ecological catastrophe Bound to this earth, this moribund soil these feculent cities, these stagnating oceans conquered and lost, conquered and lost a volatile species, inexorably destined to perish in flames seeking to harness forces we can't comprehend. The arc of the universe bends towards our eradication. Dust is rising from the fallow fields As verdancy gives way to morbidity One stifled breath coughs out a wasted prayer The next, a curse upon our past complacency Hope is draining from the sallow faces As divinity remains silent and unseen A final appeal, A final betrayal Humanity's fate is sealed "Do not go gentle into that good night" Yet with no answer betoken We contemplate nihility Digging the graves for the starving and choking Resigned to the knowledge the bindings shall remain forever unbroken Yet far beyond the dreadful horizon the vessel of our salvation has woken

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Through the ash-choked skies it pierces From the vast unknown it arrives Dreadful to the masses, still it beckons The Black Apostle - colossus from beyond the stars Berthed in the depths of blight; bathed in phantasmal, unearthly aura radiating through the walls of sleep Unnatural compulsion, galvanized by suffering mystified by the whispers in their dreams We hear the warnings: "To cast sight upon it is to be enthralled, to make contact with it is to be consumed." Conscious thought overridden in its presence Captivated by the glorious oddity Telepathic surge the disciples converge on the blighted earth convocation without language Entranced... Called forth... in recondite pilgrimage Through the wastes they tread the apostle their beacon . blinded by the toxic air guided by the second sight Battered by the searing sun, the stinging wind, the bitter dust six-score they gather as moths to a coruscating light trepidation cast aside, they form a reverent circle temporal dilation, perceptions distorting Two-by-two approach, commune and merge with the alien singularity, double helix contorting Two by two transmute and emerge with dissident biology, the sixth extinction thwarting Nanomechanical infusion Intramolecular surgery Reshape the organism, transcend limitations Discard vestigial DNA Reconfigure the vital organs Introduce new biocatalysts Rebuild the flesh, reclaim survival On this nightmare that was once called "Earth"

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

Brethren! A blasphemy against God's will now dwells in our midst The transhuman scourge that carries the Apostle's seed Despair though you may, compelled you are to resist the cybernetic eucharist defiler of flesh, evicter of spirit Condemned are the diluted to never inherit the Kingdom Rejoice, ye untainted know that death has no sting Hear me! The famine we suffer has been for centuries foretold The wages of all our transgressions against the divine God's will ironclad, grandiose to behold The closing chapter of cosmic design Seek no reprieve, this ordeal is edifying We have carried our cross this far We won't carry it one step further To abide this malicious judgment is to submit to wanton murder Why must we pay deference to this suicidal lunacy? (the fatuous voice that beckons us to the grave) Why must we remain reverent to a god that has denied us clemency? (the feckless one by whose hand we can't be saved) The strictures no longer valid The flock is bewildered by pervading dread We stand apart as pariahs Await liberation from death In blasphemy, we are remolded The Herald offers, we exalt and receive The presence of the Overmind Our second sight perceives

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Oh! The firmament has called out to us A missive from the stars A will beyond our comprehension assuming direct control No longer cloaked in secresy, new genesis unfolds Unraveling upheaval claiming our next of kin Pandemic transfiguration activates that which lay hidden within The shadow of the Overmind extends across the earth We are the last, the untainted brethren rejecting the Apostle's touch Defying in vain escalating contagion Our flesh and blood so thoroughly disowned We can't avert our eyes from the beckoning abyss the unknowable that has severed our hope Thrown to the winds, adrift in causality We wait to be swallowed by the undertow of entropy We bargain for reprieve from the judgment rendered by the highest of arbiters, minding the cosmic clockwork somewhere far beyond our reach somewhere far beyond our knowledge The cycle has ended, our time on this planet has passed No more! This morass of sorrow belies what we are This grief, we shall sublimate into rage we gaze with hostile eyes upon the unhallowed intercessor its acolytes we must strike down for what they have done to our race In a torrent of violence the profane we eradicate Their wretched eucharist they shall no further proliferate Heathen enclaves in our midst, rise to stay the righteous hand Still the cleansing fire burns across the land Reason perishes in the acrid smoke of battle None remain to toll the bells for those who died as cattle Indiscriminate slaughter Combusts to internecine war This conflagration can be Restrained no more As the slaughter subsides and the smoke clears we survey the aftermath only to find no salvation among the carnage and ruin With daybreak a fresh hell arrives as our youngest fall into ghastly torpor In perdition's grasp we shall writhe 'til the end. Oh! The firmament collapses on us Seek shelter from these baleful stars A will beyond our comprehension extracted a horrible toll no quarter for humanity, our quietus we behold The erstwhile masters of earth languishing in obsolescence Bereft of all hope, forlorn and listless we accept this miserable fate procession of wandering dead men in search of a comfortable grave The cycle has ended, our time on this planet has passed away

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Gathered in their shadowbound cloisters Catatonic minds diverted from humanity Displaced from the evolutionary cessation that condemned their kin Senseless but for telepathic linkage to the immaterial entity Impregnable chrysalis shells concealing what incubates within Mutagenesis Anguish twists the minds of the estranged forebearers of altered progeny Witnessing the end of their lineage Wages of their transgressions made manifest What are they to become? These unfamiliar creatures ensconced in wombs obscene writhing in ghoulish reverie fused with the undimensional bathed in prismatic light suffering... yet painless... mutagenesis Withdrawn from man Unseen by God bereft of mind, bereft of love the last children of earth the pallid face of our species the emergent bastard breed the terminal generation the aliens we have spawned

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

Swirling winds propagate erosive dust through the fields of chrysalis husks Luminous figures roam among the ruins of cities shattered by war, clinging to life Wraiths and shades of forsaken children bearing neither memory nor thought danse macabre, spectral pageantry final scenes of the story the Overmind's wrought They are its seraph servants pale reapers of the living remnants the Apostle left unchanged in its wake Decoupling souls from their mortal vessels Gripped by contagion, one-by-one added to the coterie Inert bodies sublimated, deliquesced distillation of essence, the prima materia yliaster flows to refill - to refill the crucible - the primeval crucible at each terminus of time they toil beneath gaze of the empyrean eye, its iris dilating as the crucible fills the diffluent breath of creation returns to its source the serpent coiled around the earth swallows its tail once more Transfusion of forms Seized and Dissolved Specters Singing Eeerie vibration that permeates all They brew the decoction From flesh into fluid each creature a drop in the infinite sea The bubbling primordium from which all life was alchemized

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

I exit my derelict craft, the solitary survivor of humanity's final, fruitless venture into the unknown I cannot adequately describe what I witness as I emerge from the wreckage - a tableau beyond all imagined visions of hell Purifying ethereal fire erases the remaining vestiges of man's construction as it passes around me Radiant beings converge at the terrestrial zenith they dance, intertwine and ascend as a pillar of light into the expanse of stars, then they pass out of sight leaving me all alone in this nightmare at the nadir of despair a sudden lucid call, a thundering echo cascade of thoughts entrances my mind no longer mine alone Visions flicker past my third eye each more vivid than the last testimony of how we fell beyond grace, beyond redemption And we silently departed having left no enduring mark With the last witness' passing No trace of our existence will remain Beneath my feet I feel the death throes of a forsaken planet As something unseen siphons the atmosphere into the void celestial vortex uprooting the last brittle trees from the arid ground axial rotation grinds to a halt and the solar wind purges away what's left I lie on the shore of a vast crimson sea, my final breaths are escaping No tunnel of light stands before me, just an endless frigid expanse Drowning in the deluge of extinguished hopes And premonitions of futures that never will be

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

Floating to the apex in reverie With only the sense to cast a single glance down down at the desolate, lifeless sphere that we once knew to be our home In this formless place outside the boundaries of time we exist without a future or past intermediate between form and void at the nexus of all stillborn worlds where rationality ceases Is this then our Paradise or the form of our perdition deprived of joy and sorrow alike countless millions are here adrift in harmonious dissolution at one with abstraction in the abyss of time we languish in infinite regret Lamenting the gulf that we never could hope to bridge the gulf between all that we ever were and all that we could have become brought to our knees by our predilection for self-destruction still this senseless guiding fallacy remained threads of our fate consumed in the cleansing fire and the ashes were cast to the cosmic wind "And it is said that that which ends us that must be our cure, To be no more; Sad cure for who would lose, Though full of pain this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander wander through Eternity, To perish rather swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion" As one we bid farewell to our withered fountainhead As one we coalesce with the immaterial cosmic consciousness Boundless union of integrated minds With no monument to mark our passing We depart to dwell among the stars timelessly... in silence

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025