Extremophiles (B) - Allegaeon

I am exposed to elements known

To, in excess, destroy and dethrone

Total envelopment of

The system, resistant, suspended as stone

From mountain heights to oceans of ice

Searing heat to arctic freeze, replacement of hydration is

Essential to life and so I thrive

Disordered proteins crystallize, converted cells now vitrified

Superimposed on top of my own

Regenesis, a genetic restructuring not ever seen

Before.

I stand alone

A monument to obstruent adaptation

Cryptobiotic response

From mountain heights to oceans of ice

Searing heat to arctic freeze, replacement of hydration is

Essential to life and so I thrive

Disordered proteins crystallize, converted cells now vitrified

I survive

Immortality realized

I survive

Moving ever forward

To the precipice of time

Holding the key to eternal life

Dueling shadows of mystery gone

Congruent solutions, set the stage

A glimpse of what’s to come

Will we decide?

Be rid of this blight

Fear of death, sorrow, disease, escape or face the weakening

Our fading timeline to face genocide

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi

Repair our structure or die

I survive

Immortality realized

I survive

Moving ever forward

To the precipice of time

Holding the key to eternal life

Encroaching our own hopelessness

We drift away toward

I stare and burn my eyes out

Fate calls, do we answer or not?

Chance to learn from life smaller yet

More resilient than ours

I stare and burn my eyes out

Fate calls, do we answer or not?

Chance to learn from life smaller yet

More resilient than ours

Immortality realized

I survive

Moving ever forward

To the precipice of time

Holding the key to eternal life

I survive

Immortality realized

Metamorphosis impedes on new horizons

Holding the key to eternal life