Frozen Machinist

a lyrical, climate change themed poem, inspired by the metal band: "Meshuggah".

Mechanical fluid
Dripping down it’s head
Eyes closed as it stains
A thin tetanus red
Glacial augmented skin
The colour of bruises
Baby blue frost
Sticks to the yellow ice drill
The tundra’s gift
Was it’s storage space
Now the ice shelf reeks
Of human waste

Here I am
Evolving
Gasping for air
Cables
Fill my lungs
Awaken
Tinnitus scream
Static
-
My time has come
Early
A chance at redemption?
Father
Hear my thoughts
Creation
I am Loki

Civilisation was manifested
through my hands
Bleeding my dreams into history
Monuments, monasteries
of the monolithic kind
Retrace the steps
of the human race

Tis I

Here I am
Evolving
Gasping for air
Cables
Fill my lungs
Awaken
Tinnitus scream
Static
-
My time has come
Early
A chance at redemption?
Father
Hear my thoughts
Creation
I am Loki

Shatterer of existence
So they must reverse engineer
Opener of portals to new dimensions

Knowledge of the old
Orchestrate the new
Violence is key
Speak no truth

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