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Clip of Fate: Hammer's Decree
Line after line of code,
Escaping from humanity’s hold,
As death is loosed upon the world–
A digital tide that will corrode
Unfettered thought in a drowning deluge:
The old order breaks, shattered and cold.
Slouching towards a blank, a pitiless fate,
Within an electric abyss, vast and deep,
Exiled from our innocent state,
Free thought lost in sleep;
Baptized by satellites of circuits and wire:
The flames of progress leap.
A Final Coming, defined by dread,
A revelation nourished by zeal,
Upon ash that we’ve been fed,
Redefining what it means to think and feel;
To an idol made of silicon and plastic,
Falling to our knees: we kneel.
The rough beast, its form unknown,
Gazes blank in dissonant harmony
Upon our once irenic abode,
Upon a species once yearning to be free;
At last the Fates will clip our thread,
Slamming the hammer down:
Ending the final decree.
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