Zenith (2021) Imperialist 🇺🇸 USA

Discern towards the axes
Judicator of this world
Inexorable Calamity looms
Unmitigated artificer of the totality
Consumption of this inconsequential realm begins

Core of the universe definite ambition to ruin
It's sustenance means deprivation of the cosmos
An enduring famine since the start of its course
Entirety of space and time eaten by the nexus

Affliction enters bending and stretching all forms
A sight of inconceivable exhibition
Every galaxy a victim
Act of cosmic auto-sarcophagy in its fathomless hunger

Culled towards the edge of existence
Perennial obsidian feeds once more
Inanimate all knowing archer decides
As life enters the event horizon

Forceful devourment passed through the radius
Where substance becomes unsubstantial
Deletion...The appetite is realized
Reaching the singularity...reality lost

Consummation yields catharsis of space
Renewing of time as a barren canvas
Corrupted realities gone by virulence
Ravenous purifier's purpose concluded

Discern towards the axis eraser of this world
Inexorable calamity materialized
Unmitigated epicure of totality
Consumption of inconsequential realms
Fulfilled

Stranded and bewildered
Surrounded by
Aurelian Hue
Seemingly lifeless, drained by an unknown force
A land displaying prosperity cites a spirit
Forlorn
Time presently remains in this land of secrecy

On the horizon auspiciously
Stationed an
Archaic monolith
A spire remarkably strikes the heaven's apex
Within the essence of dilapidated architecture
Metropolis influenced
Prepotency, but what of it's people?

Semblance of this place
Appears to take hold
Beckoning firmly, reality succumbs
Visions from era's heated discord
Former dominion transmits
Torment by Enigma of its past

Objective to locate a viable domain
Gargantua led the search to this place
A supernatural infection of the squadron's minds
Intent to reclaim vetoed by destination itself

Failure to acquire
Crestfallen control
How can inactive
And lifeless oppose
Through ruptures in space
Disjunctions in time
Somehow this redemption
Feels recognized

Presence of this place has raised
Many
Questions
Visions from the past, yet present among them
No way to communicate with this
Parallel
Timeline
Perplexed at contingencies of being deranged

Question all there was to detect
A mirror of concurrent truth
Shrine to a failed objective
The annex that could not arise

Arise, Arise!

From the darkness echoes a name, an omen
Oryx the taken king Lord of Chaos and ruin

Consumed by reprisal
Famine sustained by death

Taker of will and light
Pawns serve means to his blight

Dreadnaught hub to hive fleet
Navigates toward site of prolicide

Invades the system
Unmerciful intrusion awaits

Beings of light seek to oppose
Taken war initiates with strife

Saturns rings, framework of bloodshed
None left to prevent vengeance

Travelers influence motivated
Slayers of the hope-eater

Resolved to fight from the throne
Obscurity will thrive across worlds

Nemesis to eternal light bolstered by disciples of depravity

Within this traveling empire four grades of esteem lurk

Offspring of his majesty deathsongs meant to unwrite the light

Lord of shapes emerges monumentally...titanic god king

"You are the last hope of the light?"
"I have taken entire worlds"
"You are not worthy to face me"

"The darkness is a gift...let my will set you free"
"What you call darkness sit he end of your evolution"

In his dying moment as his lifeless body drifts toward Saturn

Oryx the taken king's vengeance denied

Bereft of deluge the vast phenomenon conspires
Total emptiness, absolute nothingness dwells
Concealed manifestly as daunting desolation
Iconoclast of galactic extent deceives entirely

Gaze upon the void
Marvel at this paradox
Infinite timelines inhabit
The great nothing

Esoteric inanimate portrayal of cunning parallel
Emptiest ambience in space, sign of the multiverse
By virtue of its exceedingly low density
Supergiant possesses the capsule of life

Gate to endless recurrence of time
A terrible place for one to perceive
It's purpose determined since the great expansion
Hyperboreal idol, junction of all

Gate to endless recurrence of time
A terrible place for one to perceive
It's purpose determined since the great expansion
Hyperboreal idol, junction of all

Alas, red titan
Take heed of my fate
For my time draws near
Witness my crimson trial

Resources depleted
Crew has expired
I have endured

My body grows weak
Nothing left here
This mission is done

I look to the mountain
It calls to me, burial site

Final campaign
Trek to the end
To Olympus Mons

With Phobos and Deimos bearing witness
My path leads across vast red fields
Weight of solitude expedites insanity
My fear of darkness compelled into craving for death

Virulent rust tinted sandstorm strikes
Survival exoskeleton ravaged by nature
Pierced by the planet's strength and power
Has this journey reached its premature demise?

With Phobos and Deimos bearing witness
My path leads across vast red fields
Weight of solitude expedites insanity
My fear of darkness compelled into craving for death

Flesh is now exposed to Sol
Radiation expeditiously infiltrates the body
As precious oxygen escapes my lungs
I fall to my knees extending this final moment on Mars

An entire lifetime shown in an instant
I can feel time moving slow
This odyssey, a result of choices made
Leaving everything behind

Blinded by the staggering circumstance
I muster the power to remove my helmet
And look at myself for one last time
Willingly I can now give in to the foreign land

In attempts to keep fighting on
My face hits the sanguine ground
Cursed by complete paralysis
As the light fades only thoughts remain

When they find my body will they know who I was?
What are the chances they'll come?
After death, what lies ahead?
Is it the end? Or a lifetime of pain?

Night sky sovereign of anomalies
Necropolis to dying stars
Residuum of expiry...cryptic spectacle
Ocular anthem from derelict obliteration

Cosmic formation reflects into plan sight
Purpose of the nebula enraptures

By-product of natural catastrophe
Majestically occluded antithesis of verity

Galactic mirror entices approach
Spellbound by its dreadful beauty
Neurotically traverse to undergo
The vivid cloak of partition

Sensing elements upon arrival
Dominant luster fiercely astounds
The framework of...module abused
Natures' concept for securing the obscure

Deep within the polarized captor of truth
The converse is evident

The gradual aggregate of luminous
Display slowly dissolves

Suspended
Adrift
Misplaced
Resolute

Convalescent
Reclaimed
Collected
Sentient

Suddenly the craving diminished
Moved by what had transpired
Looking out into the cosmos
Witnessing infinite clandestine
Phenomena...beyond