WEEK 4: Champ match: Clutbuck vs Adverse - CLUT WINS 5-3

Adverse · 04-14-2020, 09:55 AM

Intergalactic itinerancy, trekking through asteroid fields
Wiping descending droplets of Jupiter from these spacecraft windshields
Pressing my cheek against the freezing glass just to get a little closer
Brushing my face against the bursting hues of the illustrious supernovas
Sometimes I shout the loudest i can, ask the stars if they hear me
The absolute silence of space teeters between peaceful and eerie
I've grown tired of the monotonous humming of this giant, flying fortress
Home to me and a few million others on a mission of infallible importance
Ask people who we are, "alien invaders!" is what they'll say
We come to prosperous places just to decimate leaving a wasteland plagued with craters in our wake
We hit the ground running, impatiently we prey
Attaching ourselves like leeches until there's nothing draining from the veins
Conniving kind of creatures, masters of infiltration and fronts
Friendly faces that'll be picking our teeth with the bones of your civilization in months
Gluttonous by nature, no one is spared in our way
Repainting lush forest greenery the browns and greys of barren decay
Carnivorous scavengers, surgically picking every piece from the corpses
Leave into orbit, find our next home, ping in the coordinates
Rinse and repeat, it's been decades of singing this chorus
I hardly think about the desolation we were causing, there was no reason before this..

But tonight I stare into the heart of this vast black universe n
It feels like a caricature of my soul all the way down to the hints of bruised blue bleeding to the surface
As I drift to sleep, I find myself floating in a shining sea of darkness
Paralyzed as my memories play by as a fleeting stream of conscious
I see it all, the plants and beasts we've eaten, the scenery we've abolished
What we've done finally sinking in, like Eve eating fruit of the tree of knowledge
Finally allowed to bow my head to my reflection, but what i see it looks demonic!
I wake up screaming - then i pause - to see groups of people speeding towards the cockpit…
What could make a pack of ravenous savages break out into unfathomable panic?
I understand once I climb through the massive traffic and see it staring back through the glass - The galaxy's last inhabitable planet

"In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it is perched." - Paul Ehrlich

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04-14-2020, 09:55 AM	#4
Adverse low tide in serotonin bay Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,752 Battle Record: 37-28 Champed - GWL Picture Challenge - Guerrilla Writing League - Black August II Rep Power: 15446146	Intergalactic itinerancy, trekking through asteroid fields Wiping descending droplets of Jupiter from these spacecraft windshields Pressing my cheek against the freezing glass just to get a little closer Brushing my face against the bursting hues of the illustrious supernovas Sometimes I shout the loudest i can, ask the stars if they hear me The absolute silence of space teeters between peaceful and eerie I've grown tired of the monotonous humming of this giant, flying fortress Home to me and a few million others on a mission of infallible importance Ask people who we are, "alien invaders!" is what they'll say We come to prosperous places just to decimate leaving a wasteland plagued with craters in our wake We hit the ground running, impatiently we prey Attaching ourselves like leeches until there's nothing draining from the veins Conniving kind of creatures, masters of infiltration and fronts Friendly faces that'll be picking our teeth with the bones of your civilization in months Gluttonous by nature, no one is spared in our way Repainting lush forest greenery the browns and greys of barren decay Carnivorous scavengers, surgically picking every piece from the corpses Leave into orbit, find our next home, ping in the coordinates Rinse and repeat, it's been decades of singing this chorus I hardly think about the desolation we were causing, there was no reason before this.. But tonight I stare into the heart of this vast black universe n It feels like a caricature of my soul all the way down to the hints of bruised blue bleeding to the surface As I drift to sleep, I find myself floating in a shining sea of darkness Paralyzed as my memories play by as a fleeting stream of conscious I see it all, the plants and beasts we've eaten, the scenery we've abolished What we've done finally sinking in, like Eve eating fruit of the tree of knowledge Finally allowed to bow my head to my reflection, but what i see it looks demonic! I wake up screaming - then i pause - to see groups of people speeding towards the cockpit… What could make a pack of ravenous savages break out into unfathomable panic? I understand once I climb through the massive traffic and see it staring back through the glass - The galaxy's last inhabitable planet *"In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it is perched." - Paul Ehrlich*