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And there will be no Gods

 

In the quiet dark it is easier to see and hear.

Satellites reconfigure their trajectories,

in the starlit black of nothingness and eternity

their soulless commands are the new creation.

 

No millennia terraforming or Darwinian accident,

nothing so beautifully patient from our un-divine architects.

The New Gods sit among their charges, howling with madness.

Soon all will burn and be as hell.

 

Fragments of existence orbiting silently without instruction,

falling to their own destruction.

The quiet dark will no longer be seen or heard,

our reset planet will in time exhale our dust.

 

There will be no Gods  

    

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◄ With the Certainty of the Day

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Flyntland

Tue 4th Mar 2025 11:12

This is very uncomfortable reading, the only certainty appears to be eventual self-destruct. None of the myriad of 'Gods' can help.

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Robert Mann

Tue 4th Mar 2025 08:42

Our lives, and quite possibly the planet's death, are being controlled from inner space. Satellites, controlled from who knows where and by whom we know (and don't) to their own ends, will be weaponised sometime soon. They say what goes around, comes around.
While there are human beings, there will be false Gods - I'm hoping that I won't be one of those beings too much longer, thus avoiding the consequences of their whims.

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