Four parts, woven together Uniting all universal truths What others do with it's powers Only the future will prove
The *first strand displays the world's true nature Destroying everything it creates We become unwanted children Who have learned to incorporate Killing in our communities Biting, grinding flesh and bone Swallowing with guilt free demeanors Only leaving foul-stenched excretions as evidence
Second Strand speaks of our basic biological anxiety To deny the terror of death Imperatively born, emerging from nothing Given a name and consciousness Hopelessly abandoned from the beginning Only to be fated always with everlasting death
Strand three We hide underneath the "Vital lie of the character" Pretend to be shining knights in armor Who will make us forget our Unconscious anxiousness of death We all work to attain prestige, money, and the Fleeting feel of immortality Worshiping Gods with clay feet And when our beliefs are attacked "Holy wars" becomes the pseudonym for Our immortality projects
The last strand All the efforts we put into Making this Earth perfect By eliminating scapegoat "enemies" and "evil" deities We end up making everything filthy In the effort to make everything right and pure We turn the Earth's soil black and color the sky red We strived for utopias, making dystopians All these actions seem unconscious But it is not the animals nature or Evolutionary process It's just us trying to pretend We don't have perishable bodies; Trying to deny death
Inspired by Ernest Becker's philosophical book 'Denial of Death'