First, Do No Harm - Artifex Pereo

The sun sends its scorch

Burning rocks come tumbling, singeing our last layer

Plates shift with haste, testing water’s knack for sweeping us away

A funneling cloud will keep us underground

Ice melting so thin we’re liable to drown

All signs show it is us to blame, we’re masticating the health of our host from

the inside out

Something’s wrong

We’re wondering: if all was gone, what could we attest it to?

Oblivion caped & crippled the earth

Parasites become of the appetites too desperate for fulfillment

Lost is the power to harvest our worth

This is not hands from above intent on punishing their young

This is not where we belong if this body is never enough

This is not reversible

We took too much when we dug this hole

This is not where we belong if this body was never enough

Feeding tortured mess by design

Hunger took the backseat to our past times

(Sentient souls hang like trophies)

Superior souls are stripped of empathy despite their quintessence

Something’s wrong

We’re wondering: if all was gone, what could we attest it to?

Oblivion caped & crippled the earth

Parasites become of the appetites too desperate for fulfillment

Lost is the power to harvest our worth

If hate spread like wildfire, the earth would be covered in

Flames

Symbiosis was brave but never made a bout, a contest against all that breathes

until light burns out (I've been wondering how we got so alone)

This is not hands from above intent on punishing their young

This is not where we belong if this body is never enough

This is not reversible

We took too much when we dug this hole

This is not where we belong if this body was never enough