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Why The Abyss Stares Back

by Wakey29

Time passes, fear grows All eventualities Seep in like poison. A façade of peace, An underbelly of pain. Two halves of one world. Cracks begin to show. Forked tails in elegant clothes Eyes open to more. Wide smiles show fanged teeth – Hunched over those that still pray Is your God alive? Lands over the sea We used to think they stood tall. Now, all is falling. I’m a Nihilist For who could look at the world And still have any hope.
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Written by
Wakey29
33 / NB / Nottingham
Published
Oct 16, 2024
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Notes

I tried to use a technique I haven't ventured to use in my work: Haiku.

Recently I have been taking a look at my spiritual / religious views and I realised that it isn't that I don't believe an ethereal being (or indeed just a different species, or 'whoever is running the simulation') created the universe, it was that I couldn't believe with the decay of simply everything that there wouldn't be some kind of intervention. If we were in a simulation, for example, surely whoever ran it would not want to see millennia of work self combust.

I realised that I believe in a hell, to an extent. Alongside that, I believe 'God' is dead.

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