[Soulstice]

On day Seven, he napped - and then millenia passed
He awoke. Gazed down and erupted with a defeaning laugh
The sky trembled and cracked -from his powerful ***kle
He hadn't seen an attempt at this since the tower of Babel
As if it were the hour of rapture, he began divine intervention
Summoned glowing green ghosts from a frightening dimension
Who, in a spiral, descended, with beakers and drills
And seven eager red eyes behind a featureless film
Arriving in secret, they built a lab deep in the wasteland
Beneath the glow of the moon - until they stopped its rotation

For no measure of time, the ghosts herded many men into line
Strapped them down, and drenched them in aether applied
to the forehead to let them inside - and take possession of minds
The grey matter was transported to an impenetrable hive, deep in the mountains
As decades passed.. God watched reason’s denouement.
He couldn’t believe the surroundings - steeples in townships
replaced the past cities of iron - men preferred sermons to science,
Found an urgent reliance in faith and unity - a new banner for man
& with fervor, excitement, they’d raise it beautifully

The ruins of purpose past are rusted and decayed - as hundreds of days
turned to another decade of brotherly prayer. Across every mountain
They’d sung to the savior. They trekked across deserts and jungles
& treacherous tundras on helpful sabbaticals, touring
across the remnants of national borders to spread their practice to foreign
peoples to catalyze worship. Now, between mountains, a freezing divide
Walks Shirakh, leading his tribe. Scouting for water with his people behind.
As he peered into a cave, he stopped believing his eyes.
There stood some behemoth - A hive, with steel-gray massive dimensions
No passage or entrance - floating inside this unnatural chamber
He touched it and felt blasted with anger - a communication beyond math or language
He saw the wrath of raiders & villages burning. 6 million people wishing & yearning
while locked in barracks. He saw robber barons, rich from oil they stosed
he saw building tumbling down beneath shadows of mushroom cloud
and the spoils of war..

On his way back to camp..
he considered the less violent vision. Each proof and theory that defined the systems
of time and physics. He knew the truth of every corollary. - that every mind had written
In their existence. As he returned to his tribe, he saw white men approaching with smiles
He felt something burning inside him -reproach with some guile - So he stole maps and scripture and burned them alive.
He made passage quickly - to a colony of the roving priests and preachers
With ease he reached them, proclaimed himself the second coming
Of the supreme in a deceitful speech. Their hearts were thumping -there was fervent chatter
To start with something.. anything.. to serve their master

Shirakh the makeshift messiah - he graced them with guidance - he selected the most able of white men
And granted them priesthood - the most high - with robes sable & vibrant - ouroboros sequined
Upon a golden dais they preached the Codex of Reason - that Shirakh wrote to guide them.
Dissenters were burned at the stake. After, Shirkah gathered the colonies. And used his infinite wisdom
to teach them to master technologies he saw in those belligerent visions. Many days passed
and they forged a spacecraft. He boarded with his disciples - bent on destroying his rival
And leaving an entropic void devoid of survival. As the atmosphere began passing them by
The crew let out rapturous cries - in the chamber - decorated with silver serpents
On his dais, Shirakh delivered sermons of the sickly vermin that lived beyond the ivory gates
they approached. He ignited the hate in his servants and they began riding escape
pods that arrived in a fiery blaze inside the estate until only smoking silver piles remained

And he ascended the throne of course. At his feet a tremendous glowing corpse
Now he controlled the world. He waved his hands and at the spur of his movements
he summoned ghosts with an emerald vibrance. And like any curious human
Sent them to Earth to exact his terrible science.