Flame Bearers

In the darkest regions of the black abyss

The godless bearers of the flame

Savour the sweetness of the serpent's gift

It will keep the gods at bay

I have read your secrets in the solar wind

I have seen your features

In the breaches of the flame

I have unleashed the power of the fiery depths

I have faced the bleakness

Of eternity beyond the veil

I exposed the madness of the miniscule

I beheld a wealth of worlds in a grain of sand

I reduced your fate to the statistical

I held an infinity of infinities in my mortal hand

The thirst for knowledge

With each gain the more he yearns

The humbling realization

Less is know the more he learns

Promethean fire illuminates

But it burns

Mesmerized by the privileged view

Though blinded cannot look away

He cannot resist the dangling thread

Fabric unravels as certainties fray

The world rotates beneath his feet

As it slips away

Graffiti stains the ruins of the edifice

Truth cannot be clearer, penned in the blood of hearts

Insanity is met beyond the precipice

With defiance, though this breath the last