A spear of light bursts through the atramentous skies
Penetrating the deepest seas, bathing all in burning white
All retinas liquefy and the world becomes permanently blind
They lay prostrate and accept the culmination of all mankind
Anything still living is immediately radiated and their very being evaporates
Every cell of their skin tissue seared beyond comprehension
What's left accumulates on the ground
Those born of the sea balloon and rise to the surface
Their remnants painting a new layer to the shores
Once undiscovered organisms rest on the waves
Entire phylum's still and lifeless together
Fumes seeping into the ephemeral atmosphere
An astronomical blaze engulfs the lands, towering over the skyline
The oceans boil and the vapour and embers combine
The conflagration rampages, forming an earth wide pyro-cumulonimbus
The lithospheric mantle begins to warp
The plates deform as if by will
Tectonic shift, the once steady composition modifying at a great pace
The seismic waves once born to cause chaos ring out to an audience of none
Tephra explodes from every known vent to join the fulminating troposphere.
The newly baron chasms become the unstoppable path for the molten flow
An even more inhospitable expanse gathers, undulating and removing all it takes with it
The last biography of man consigned to be unremembered
The crust begins weeping as the plates are failing
Entire continents disappear
New fissures tear away with ease and so ends the Anthropocene
The sixth extinction is upon us, somehow far beyond our own doing
On this rock, it returned to its Hadean state as it once started
On this rock, the smelting waves in their aimless dance
The odyssey concludes in the deepest trench
The Black Cradle survives
At the lowest point to exist, true isolation was achieved
Although non-germane considering what has occurred
Despite challenges he remained resolute
Deserving of the warrior in his fullness
Witnessing the dawn of a tempestuous age with not a soul in sight
For inside he feels harmonious, gently swayed by the passive tide and an end to the disquieting flux
Alas, this brief calm is ill-considered and entropy must prevail
The plates converge once more, pushing the ascent of ridges
Miles through the clouds, towering over all that came before
New igneous peaks emerging from their burning roots
Leaving virgin ravines in their wake
Gathering motion, each taller than the last, getting closer to the fabled trench
The turbulence finds him again
One by one, a new gorge is formed and the air is saturated with the primordial slop
In this primitive chamber, he is not protected as the final furore begins
Impaled on this last cairn above the sea
One last glimpse of the sky, the world at its knees
So too, like all those who came before, he returns to dust
On the grand stage of oblivion, a divine celestial being commands the firmament
Its ethereal hand resurrects the one who conquered as all dissipates around him
It beckons him upwards, beyond the hell below
In its other hand commences a wormhole
He finds himself at the foot of Sinai once again
Through the passage he goes and arrives in the infinite expanse
Locked eyes with his saviour
There is no more fear, he is humbled by this seraphic vision
The lips, born of stars, unpurse
I watched as you toiled, a candle unaware it is a beacon
The flame dancing, not quite aimless, just seeking an answer
So here is your purpose
Another passage opens and I enter the new world
I am lucid in my understanding, it was predetermined
We are 7 billion souls strong. We are 7 billion souls strong