[Suzerain of Sheol]

Solving Fermi

the ravens of entropy returning to roost

as invisible wolves devour the flock

culling ignorance like sin

unhallowing this catastrophe

anointing the despicable at every turn

like any true philosophy of justice

dying jesters aghast in disorder

dragging sages like angels in contempt of calculus

a dark night to behold the absence of the soul

to drag life's treasure to the precipice

to the wishing well at the end of the world

to cast it away with a thought of the past

crucifixes broken like trees in a tempest

the realpolitik of a misguided endeavor

strategic bankruptcy of the armageddon industry

thus a hastened holocaust of morals

a newfound fetish

as we recycle tyrants in a final fated stand

at war with nature as we have always been

a deus ex necessitate born from our need to escape

a revolution spawned too late

as we rape the messiah for zero-sum grace

the late-term abortion of every cogent mind financed by fantasy

human dignity trickling down the sewer

as mammon gags on the profligate

the well-intended disaster of the rugged individual

to break another oath like a holy curse

vilifying the desperate as they weep from heaps of corpses like them

pondering if there isn't time for a more timely end

the laws of history smoked in effigy

our anguish the last narcotic to abuse

despots enshrined by the righteous and confused

defiling those few moments that remain

with bitter smiles knowing they'll be kings in hell

rejoicing at the demise of the need to lie

one last naked masquerade

snarling and slandering the bastard sun

as the future goes up in flames

or falls in desecrated poisoned remains

the husk of ideal whited out in indecency

pogrom by percentage

eviscerating the weakest for the ego of the capitalist

our auteurs of this new art of destruction

singing with the psychopath muse

convincing the innocent to slit their own truth

in novel artifice

of genocide and profits

money and blood gashing from wrists

satan emancipated on technicality

the motte-and-bailey of cynical game theory

an ignoble close for an unworthy cause

nihilistic memes seeding inertia and blame

a collapse by stochastic decay

leaving as legacy the abhorrent realization

and unsurprising revelation

and spectacular disappointment

at why the universe is devoid of life