SPOTLIGHT BATTLE: Asylum vs Godcomplex - Both Win Via NS

[sral]

AOWL Season V, Week 12


SUMMARY OF RULES:

Verses are due
Tuesday at 9 p.m. Pacific/West Coast or Tuesday 11:59 PM Eastern / 6:00 AM Wednesday Central European/London
There are NO extensions.

Verses MUST be a minimum 10 lines or a maximum of 48 lines (or 650 words).

Votes are due Friday at 4:00 p.m. Western / or Friday 7:00 PM Eastern / 1:00 AM Saturday Central European/London Failure to vote will result in automatic sign out for the next week.

All competitors must vote on THREE battles and post links/ references in the voting thread.

Read the full rules here!



TOPIC: "I saw two shooting stars last night,
I wished on them, but they were only satellites,
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish,
I wish,
I wish I cared..." - Billy Bragg
@asylum @fraze

[asylum]

check.

[asylum]

Increasing heartbeat. Enlarging pupils. Light centered to a beam,
lenses render it to signals broadcasted on interstellar streams,
death usually comes instantly from whispering pieces of debris,
close ones for an instant sound like an inner demons scream.
Still, it feels like home for a clone in an interdimensional regime..
the tension dulls against your soul like a noose, motion’s energy breaks,
next to perfect symmetry in every movement, the vast vacuum of space,
welcomes us home from battle more radioactive then nuclear waste.
Dining on iodine pills, complying to build an empire rebels are trying to kill,
now lying still. Entering enemy atmosphere.
Once captured, nothing's happened here.
The ship rattled and shook while our headphones played sounds of babbling brooks,
I flexed each finger on my hands and looked out the drop ships opening hatch,
tightened my grip and dove through a black hole into the world I’m dispatched.
You feel like you want to vomit, but you know that you can’t. Training enhanced.
Engaging the dance. Bogies at six. Maintain the advance,
our escape pod left a crater in an obsidian field,
within seconds I reached the edge and engaged my iridium shields.
Their arms were like scythes, cutting swathes through fields of human flesh,
and when they died, their bodies instantly exploded into waves of crimson death.
Acid flowed in an ocean of persistent corrosion,
it’s surf consistently closing in on positions we’re holding.
I could hear their screams gurgle as their lungs melted and I hurdled,
across an open chasm to a fallen enemy our forces hadn’t purged.
He laughed and spoke in a foreign tongue as my k-bar submerged,
inside his brain while I gasped and lurched,
smashed to a pile of gore underneath their massive herd,
I screamed, "BRING DEATH TO THIS BASTARD SCOURGE!"

[sral]

Godcomplex:


Topic: Awareness is the light that makes the darkness disappear.
Dan McDonald, "The Life Regenerator"


Some say I left my children to rot in a hellhole
But, my absence wasn’t to allot for self-growth
Believe it or not, I was locked in a syndrome;
Comatose, death had infiltrated God’s organism.
During my absenteeism, I lost the spot to my kingdom,
Replaced by diligent purveyors of the agnostic discipline.
The phenomena I left behind became the unconscious stimulus
That allowed the contents of my cosmic tissues to grow;
Composed of the entire heaven-earth continuum you know.
From every being to all the luminous spheres of plasma
To every underwater body of land still seared in magma
All of it is mine, but also yours since you wield my karma
That I left behind intertwined in a dense miasma.
Yet, even as an unfinished design, you transcended thy carcass,
And the limitations of ye, I laid down to prevent mental tarnish.
But, you rose beyond by using remnants of darkness
Found entrenched in your cellular cartridge.
Yet, even the best of your avatars, your secular martyrs,
Have never felt an entire nebula’s heart burn.

I was away for so long I missed your development.
You went from microscopic amoeba’s,
To having an actual physical skeleton!
But, I see you poison yourselves with quasi-spiritual medicines;
Carcinogens cleansing through metastasis your solar plexus
Like the Ebola infested smoker’s breath mints
Causing the gamma ray radiation flowing from heaven
To be blamed as the culprit of your demise.
And, I can’t do anything since I’ve only opened my eyes;
The first thing I saw was the stars, the organs of the sky
Illuminating the shadow that orbits in our signs.
How about that! Without me the forces didn’t petrify
The universe I left behind kept on transforming into life,
Maybe, I should return inside, dormant in your mind.

But if I leave, those that do believe-
Will see it as sociopathic indifference.
If only I could have opted out of my cognitive dissonance
For the madness and ignorance, I had when I lived in the abyss.
Fixing my depersonalization disorder made existence exist.
For prior to cosmogonical conception,
I had no physiological connection to any creation,
All I had to consider was me; No attention to equations
That if calculated wrong will cause this dimension’s devastation.
Losing your memory isn’t that bad, dementia isn’t degradation
It’s a mental revelation central to forming a lasting impression.
A child loving their father forever is a transient obsession
So, I’ve made my choice to leave you be. It’s your path your direction
Not mine. I will not interfere. So save your intentions, your prayers.
There will be no Armageddon or miraculous intervention to save you
When outbreaks of virulent epidemics prove fatal.
It’s become epigenetics over nature. Our senses are inflated
To believe, we could make out the essence of a flavor.
It’s up to your genus now to interpret the exegesis of its data
For I won’t be coming back, so don’t mention your creator.

[sral]

BREAKING NEWS: A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT!

Dear Sir/Madam,

Due to unforeseen circumstances, with Fraze and Razah unfortunately unable to attend to the league this week – we shall be pitting their opponents verses against each other in order to get both writers their deserved feedback/votes/views/kudos!

Both writers will be given a win this week, the loser of this spotlight battle, however, will NOT be given an L as both had showed on time accordingly. This matchup is taking place purely for the purpose of fun and good sportsmanship between both competitors – but it WILL still count towards your weekly battle league links so don’t feel discouraged from showing them both love!

Good day, good sirs!


- President Lars

[Frank]

If you pit two verses against one another, why not let the verses speak for themselves?

let the votes do the talking

[Adonis]

sorry guys, will give you each feed in mag. but at this point I have to close this to ensure the more pressing battles see due diligence