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From the Void by James Fenix
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Since earthbound humans wandered lonely
Millennia have passed long and slowly
As indifferent time rolls on without a care
We forget the terrors that live out there
I tell a tale of a time forgotten
When fast space flight was a recent lesson
A few dozen fledgling worlds begun
Away from the nursing of our native sun
The long held wish, to break our shackles
To find a frontier; a challenge to tackle
One by one the star colonies were built
As humanity’s fears began to wilt
The sailors of the stars met with success
Creating utopia, past flaws redressed
Humanity thought its troubles had passed
Its image forever in the void cast
But ancient dreams became a farce
When the starry states were threatened at last
Secret things lurked in the universe
An unknown danger, this alien curse
Terrible torment from the starlit sky
Silent shrieks in the darkness, unheard cries
Hidden in the black void long ago
Sleeping secretly, these ancient foes
Blasphemy of nature, the price well paid
Archaic evil minds the nightmares made
Achilles’ heel of surpassing science
New titans of genetic defiance
Vast star entities rivalling small planets
Smaller devilish slaves the masters’ puppets
Slowly sailing the sky by unknown means
Those nearby suffered terrible dreams
Humanity trembled, the Earth afire
As the horrors fulfilled destructive desires
Worlds obliterated, the horrors moved fast
Innocence’s end, devastation surpassed
These nightmares bred disease in the mind
Making men into the image of their kind
The twisted tumults of a stolen soul
Madness and death were the cheaper toll
They sought sweet oblivion as a cure
The comforting bliss of an ending pure
There are some things that a man should not see
They arouse a desire not to be
What could they do to fight such nightmares?
In the days of darkness, only despair
One does not reach out and stop a storm
One merely weathers it and later, mourns
The dark gods of the stars had their day
The rulers had come, nothing else to say
A thousand years of torment ensued
Passive suffering, no hint a feud
Monstrosities inflicted anguish
Enslaved unfortunates always punished
Raising great and terrible monuments
To these unknowable evil ancients
Shrivelled human shells were insane playthings
Broken beings prone to mindless ravings
Worse were those who embraced the monsters
Evil, senseless, soulless betrayers
Injecting vile venom into their veins
Patiently anticipating the pain
Becoming creatures we could not name
Our kin and tormenters, one and the same
Only the overlooked remained alive
All the others joined the twisted hive
Fragments of lives lived in squalor and fear
Threat of those hellish things always near
After an age so long it seemed eternal
We were rid of the menace infernal
The dark gods left, their servants abandoned
Humanity remained, our souls blackened
None can say why they returned to the void
Some say there were other worlds to destroy
Into the darkness sailed the black fleet
Their victims another fate to meet
Humanity never shook the memory
They remained in fear of their enemy
Any small shadow in the night caused pain
Seeming sinister to those who remained
This ancient time has long passed us by
We live our halcyon lives in the sky
Old scars will fade as the future beckons
The fiends now few people can reckon
But the nightmares left us, never defeated
Mere legend now; could it be repeated?
This may be the fate we cannot avoid
As we await their return from the void
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