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mugspoetry · 8 years ago

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Man vs God

The Gods have always despised humankind

From the moment they emerged, mewling and blind

An acrid explosion of sordid childbirth

Sent to ravage, pillage and desecrate the earth

Shuddering sobs from the heart of the womb

Crawling naked into an irradiant tomb

A sickening gash on a wound filled with contempt

The world was a disaster, dark, diseased and unkempt

And after countless years of this asinine human unease

The earth became malicious, cold, dead and diseased

So the Gods sent the Devils down into the earth

With orders to ruin it for all it was worth

And in a great battle of hatred, fury and fire

The earth was lit up, an enormous funeral pyre

The sickening mess that was left of humanity

Was butchered and maimed, a wondrous calamity

And now what’s left of the planet smoulders in fire

And great wreaths of smoke taunt what remains in the mire

The birds lie listless, blackened and charred

Smoking like pitiful, malignant cigars

Melancholic ash and mournful steam

Boiling and buckling like some nightmarish dream

Hissing and wailing in a tumultuous tune

Of stagnant starvation and disconsolate doom

Bright rivers of magma ostentatiously sing

As they blister and burn everything

The seas evaporate leaving cities adry

Sucked of their moisture they wither and die

Streams of lava revel in this murderous plunder

Tantalizing the ether like lightning and thunder

They embrace the ruins of what once had been

And dissolve them into nothing, leaving only a dream

The dead call out as they slowly melt away

Voices as low in timbre as the sun in the day

A song of dismemberment, violence and rage

Sung in a riveting and frightfully malevolent age

The world now lies empty, fallow and bare

Like some mangled denizen from a Machiavellian nightmare

Wreathed in an aura of a great, burgeoning death

There is no sound, no colour, no light and no breath

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A thousand years pass, a vast epoch of time

But silence prevails like salt water and brine

The fetid soil remains rancid and bruised

By the stains of the souls whom life did elude

But then in a flash, in a marvelous, magical moment

The earth opened up in a bright burst of atonement

And from the depths of the mangled, murderous soil

Emerged a tendril of green, a mystical coil

A shoot of life, launched into the ether

Blind and mewling, confused and in fever

Desperately searching for moisture and birth

After clawing its way through miles of earth

Within seconds it’s joined by a plethora of siblings

Green plants emerging as brave, fortuitous saplings

The world becomes a viridescent carpet, peppered with shoots

As old, broken soil opens up to new roots

From what once was dead, blackened and charred

An eviscerated void, from which all life was barred

Now emerges a lush tapestry, perfectly aligned

Providing the fuel to sustain humankind

With mouths agape the gods helplessly gaze

Incredulous, shocked, terrified and amazed

Their careful, ruinous, murderous plan

Has been thwarted by this green, perennial clan

With great shouts of anguish the shoots push through the earth

Like a woman being mauled whilst trying to give birth

In bright raiment’s of colour and gleeful screams

The rapturous vines claw through the seams

Emerging victorious they stand on their toes

Breathing in shadows and the world’s dormant woes

Filtered and transformed, they turn dust into snow

Exhaling oxygen and seeds which will grow

Within hours the world has been retransformed

From a grim, desolate plague to a wondrous horde

Of shrubs, sprouts and shoots of tumultuous life

Which pierce through the years of malicious strife

Tenuous forests bleed limbs and leaves

Uprooting the earth with bountiful trees

A bright, mottled raiment of verdant mystery

Engulfing the skies in a green tapestry

Small insects, timid mice and blind, stunted moles

Crawl out from their dark, malevolent holes

Blinking fortuitously in the eye of the sun

They leap and they bound, they spring and they run

In a great vortex of life, beasts grow and evolve

Repopulating the earth with dogmatic resolve

Toothed, furred and scaled, winged, grounded and pawed

Reptilian serpents, jagged and clawed

Systems flourish and dense jungles emerge

Deserts and arctic, sand and snow converge

Savannahs and mountains burst forth from the ground

In a climatic, ecstatic, thick gush of sound

Clouds build fortresses in great alabaster plains

Sucking in dissonance and exploding in rains

As water pours, heavy and expedient from the skies

The soil jumps joyously to receive its prize

Rivers flow thick, jettisoned and desperately vague

Smashing hills into valleys, like some barbaric plague

From the depths of these rivers come plants, frogs and pike

A chaotic assortment of underwater life

Where the rivers expand and the earth disappears

The seas emerge, lightly salted by tears

As the Gods realize in disbelief that they have absolutely no say

In the way of the world and the world of today

And the sea forges deep, briny and blue

Cultivating plains of coarse, saline hues

Unlocking vast chambers stored in the earth

And releasing Neptune’s dark, fanciful mirth

Of tremendous behemoths, scaled and oily

Visceral beings, malicious, unholy

Patched together from nightmarish dreams

Forming creatures of unworldly extremes

Leviathan’s gather in maddening, haphazard circles

Of seaweed, starfish and omniscient turtles

Like moths to a flame or a flame to the sky

The oceans breed demons whom none can defy

Bodies are never buried in the depths of the sea

They spiral downwards, in endless misery

In this world and the next, the sea is unknown

A questionable place, filled with unanswered moans

And finally from this scaffolding, this tremendous design

Emerges once again the frightfully brutish mankind

Evil and cruel, arrogantly shocking

Murderous, malicious and blatantly mocking

One part fear and two parts hate

Contempt for each other reigns innate

He is thrust into the world so tender and bare

Soft skinned, weak boned with only a light covering of hair

The Gods collapse as they view this rebirth

Once again mankind triumphs and rules over the earth

“Perhaps man has struck a deal with the devil?” they say

“ For how else would he emerge here today?”

Within mere hours of being alive and breathing in air

Man has already enslaved, murdered and stripped bare

The entire ecosystem and all it contains

Leaving nothing but discarded animal remains

They build rudimentary shelters of hemlock and grass

Forge weapons of steel, copper and brass

Light fires and sings songs of worship and rage

Heathens and pagans firmly take back the age

They begin to build a civilization again

Fighting, clawing and spreading pain

Pyramids, pantheons, statues and gold

Leaving the world bleak, icy and cold

Burdened by monolithic conceptions of self

They envision a world of material wealth

They craft languages that divide and obfuscate

Spreading insidious rhetoric that spawns fresh hate

Societies form, they spread roots and they grow

Feeding on flesh and the crops that they sow

Complex economies of barter and trade

Letting some grow rich from the goods that are made

Salaried bondage furrows their souls

Through usury, corruption and nepotistic control

This insipid system of interest and gold

Blights their morality and renders them cold

With vice and venom comes chaos and greed

Malignant, ill tempered and driven by need

Great wars are fought again and again

Causing endless turmoil, hatred and pain

Through colonial rancour and classist dementia

Along with spiritual dissonance and racial hysteria

They embark on a maddening rush to embellish their lives

Deep within the folds of apathetic divides

They domesticate reveries, they standardize flaws

They embellish systems of mindless, inflexible laws

They craft intricate societies of complexity and distaste

They taint and truncate, they destroy and debate

They slaughter the forests with perverse apathy

And mangle the oceans with fecal entropy

They live finite, indefinable, material lives

A myopic existence within their grumbling hive

And so the Gods desperately try to intervene

Sending plagues, burning bushes, giant floods and disease

However man is too callous and cunning to care

He simply creates holy books to control what is there

Although, by this time it is already far too late

For mankind has begun his epic migrate

He has colonized the world and built cities and trade

Embedding himself within all that was made

The Gods need a miracle, something tremendously cruel

A ploy to rid the earth of mankind’s dark rule

However the only option available to them

Is so evil, malicious and entrenched within sin

For man has believed since the very dawn of time

That there is a plan for him within this paradigm

He calls it ‘heaven’ and ‘life after death’

And believes that after he dies he will still have breath

Thus religions are formed to enforce this great lie

And they believe they will live even after they die

So even when life becomes remarkably bleak

Humans still strive for the eternal life that they seek

However when you tell man that after he dies

He will just rot in the ground and feed the flies

And that his soul will simply cease to be

He then loses both his will to live and his sanity

And thus the God’s plan is set into action

Through a vision mankind is shown this distraction

And when he realizes that there is absolutely no point to his life

That it’s meaningless, stagnant and filled with strife

Just waves of misery, hatred, torment and bile

Disease, destruction, disappointment and guile

He loses his mind and goes completely insane

As misanthropic hatred clouds over his brain

For he realizes that there is nothing out there for him

And that nothing can save him, least of all religion

Suddenly life is no longer a canvas of limitless scale

And death is no longer a distant, mysterious tale

Thus the world descends into anarchic rage

A chaotic, diseased, myopic rampage

Terror permeates every single sphere

Pervading the masses with mind numbing fear

Insipid and diseased it tumbles and screams

And the world stares in shock as it bursts its seams

It causes cities to crash and churches to fail

As prophets decay and dead children wail

Whilst merchants and thieves perform sickening deeds

And Kings and Queens bow down on their knees

Whilst armies lay wreaths at the feet of the trees

And corpses dance, so agile and free

The world sways between rage and despair

As people convulse and tear out their hair

Whilst their bodies decay and rot in great piles

Of clotted blood, sweat, tears and bile

As eyes leak down faces in scarlet streams

And chests cave in beneath their unease

Whilst lungs are shredded by parsimonious disease

And the sweet smell of death sweeps through the breeze

As fingers lie slack in disrepair

Bones gnawed to stumps that taunt the air

Crimson crayons that draw in the sand

A tale of woe and the destruction of man

They lie in great masses and bleed in the soil

Tongues lying listless and gums trodden frail

Blackened teeth hanging thick with rot

Shattered and carelessly left on the spot

Where bigots lie splattered and smeared in the earth

Clutching bibles and money for all that they’re worth

Great cities are shattered into shards of wrath

Torn apart by a reverent psychopath

Cribs lie callous and hopelessly bare

As pregnant women howl their despair

Whilst their bodies bloat and stagnate in great waves

Of clotted blood and small unmarked graves

Limbs lie scattered in great murderous forests

Like some jagged arrangement from a demonic florist

Ripped from sockets and thrown asunder

They sing to the birds in a deep alluring thunder

A song of tilting tumultuous reveries

That speak of the killing of sanctimonious deities

Who were skinned and raped with a wooden stake

Before being tied to a cross and drowned in the lake

Innocent virgins were swept into palaces

Showered in gold and butchered by phalluses

Their carcasses hung in great dripping mounds

Of fresh, nubile flesh that was passed all around

Children were sent to slaughter their siblings

And to gather their bones and slowly start whittling

Knives and blades of femurs and spine

Helped by their victims to try save some time

Strong healthy men were ripped into halves

And then quartered and drawn and compressed into salves

That were applied to open wounds to speed up decay

And allow the maggots to swim, dance and play

Regal women were turned into slaves

They were rid of their limbs and forced to behave

Gouged and defiled they would crawl in great circles

Providing amusement like vile, stunted turtles

Soldiers were baked in large ovens and turned into clay

Their screams echoing murderously as they slowly turned gray

Their wives were then fed the lungs of the dead

Thinly pasted in bile, like butter and bread

Butchers were gathered and painted bright red

And thrown to the bulls who trampled them dead

Servants then groomed and saddled them like horses

Drilling iron hooves deep into their corpses

Emperors and tyrants were boiled and blackened

Ground into pastes and thoroughly splattered

Throughout the streets and smeared on the walls

Inside bathrooms and on the ceilings of halls

The world swiftly shuddered and tore out its eyes

Flesh flowed in rivers as the people all died

Children and parents dropped dead on the spot

Where they were magnanimously raped and left to rot

Cities caved in and oceans trembled

Mountains cracked and rivers rumbled

The sky shattered into blistering shards

That punctured the earth as it was caught completely off guard

Deflated and dying the world slowly imploded

Hissing through space in endless convulsions

Chaos reigned as it folded over itself

Consumed by fires from its great mineral wealth

The Gods looked down and howled with laughter

Their amusement walked hand in hand with the slaughter

The shock of having to endure mankind’s return

Was wholly erased by watching him burn

With humans defeated the skies were theirs

No longer would they meddle in the God’s affairs

For the spirits had spoken and bargained with fate

No more would mankind reap havoc and hate

The black sheep of the world had been viciously killed

Their planet broken in half with nothing to rebuild

Their putrid little rock was finally dead

And all who lived on it now lay curled in bloodshed

And so comes the end of a time

Where malevolent humans ruined all that transpired

And finally now there is nothing again

Just stretched across space, a giant bloodstain.

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