Gelid Ascent

You are what parasites evolved from
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You are the refuse energy from a superior form
Nothing that occurs to you is intended for your involvement
You're an irrelevant effect
Unavoidable, but of low influence
One last thing that you must understand
(To be dead is to be confused, to be mistaken)
You speak to me
Like the anguish of a child doused in flames
Oh, you speak to me
Like the stones that bash in his skull and brains exposed
It's always been the same
200,000 years of viciousness
The violent autism
of our suborned, oblique, cracked out species
Oh you speak to me
Like the rifles that annihilated his face
Oh you speak to me
In a voice so dry and calm and impassive
And 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