and far away...
destiny

this is the pyre upon which we all burn.
there is the god that we have all spurned.
hell blossoms here as heaven now fades.
hell blossoms here on the earth we have made.

here lie the angels gone by all unmourned;
here live the demons that they have once scorned.
here within all of us, the emptiness waits;
here within all of us lie the seeds of our fate.

this is the ocean within which we all drown,
chaos our kingdom and darkness our crown.
this is the future, our destiny, our doom:
a world black as midnight in heat worse than noon.



For Environmental Destruction and Nuclear War

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