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Permian DuskSkating fiery micro-blades slice red trails in my eyesAs a vision from a distant age embellishes the skies A weary sun looks down upon this scarred and battered land And the hourglass of ages soon is leached of all its sand My tongue dissolves in acid from my stomach or the air As early beasts drown swiftly in their primitive despair And a morbid thought occurs as I relive this mass extinction Not a vision but a prophecy of man’s final eviction Dreams flowing back Feel the icy cold of a Permian Dusk I stand upon the precipice A chill invades my spine For the billion deaths I witness Flock together and the pain I feel is mine A distant angry venom etches gateposts in my veins And the count is so much greater for what’s gone than what remains Aeons worth of putrid death come back to haunt once more As we wait for the cataclysm to bring dusk back to the fore Dreams flowing back Feel the icy cold of a Permian Dusk I stand upon the precipice A chill invades my spine For the billion deaths I witness Flock together and the pain I feel is mine! Shockwaves from the Permian Dusk grip vice-like ‘round my heart As seismic pulse engulfs me as the final death throes start Countless lifetimes laid to waste and souls depart the Earth The future torn and ruined, devastation’s deadly birth |