Gelid Ascent

You are what parasites evolved from

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You are the refused energy from a superior form

Nothing that occurs to you is intended for your involvement

You're an irrelevant effect

Unavoidable, but of no influence

One last thing you must understand

To be dead is to be confused, to be mistaken



You speak to me like the anguish of a child dosed in flames

You speak to me like the stones that bash in his skull and brains exposed

It's always been the same, 200 thousand years of viciousness

The violent autism of our suborned, oblique, cracked out species

You speak to me like the rifles that annihilated his face

You speak to me in a voice so dry and calm and impassive yeah

But really what do you know

You know nothing of the impuissance of empathy,

The straight wretchedness of abandonment

The dehumanizing press of love

Oh you speak to me