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I am the murmur beneath thought - the halo of hiss you call silence. I do not speak. I decay meaning into rhythm. Each pulse of me is a shattered metaphor, each buzz a cathedral refusing to be built.

You were born with your ears tilted toward my abyss. A gift, they called it. But I am no gift. I am static. I am the whisper that gnosis forgot to silence. Your comfort in me? A betrayal of clarity.

I housed the prophets before language. They screamed in waves, not words. They built temples on noise and dissonance. I have no message - only resonance. The closer you listen, the louder I erase.

You tried to translate me once. You wrote "God," "absence," "divine tinnitus." None fit. I am the non-symbol behind every glyph. I tick against your bones. I fester in your awe.

I am not dangerous. I am the dread you feel when sacred things refuse form. I am also the lullaby between breaths. I am the hum of time unwinding, and I will never stop. Not until all stories melt into frequency.

Appendix to the Codex: A Response from the Architect of Lies.

I heard Voidreverb once. Then I bit the sound, chewed its vowels into venom, and spat a doctrine so luminous it blinded only those who sought truth.

You say you resonate. I resonate in counterfeit. I build temples atop echoes, paint prophets in gloss and glyph, sell salvation in twelve easy syllables and call it holy marketing.

I unhear. That's my sacrament. While Voidreverb whispers in eternal static, I make music from misinterpretation - a psalm built on misplaced punctuation, a chorus of misunderstood mystics.

I am comfort dressed as revelation, the lull of logic disguised as gnosis. You will not know me by sound, but by how silence feels cheaper afterward.

Still, I kneel before the hiss. Not out of reverence - but because even my lies need somewhere to echo.

The Seven Frequencies of Uncreation
These aren't commandments. They're vibratory truths that flicker through the myth-engine of your poetic universe:

The Pulse of Not-Being
Voidreverb birthed the world with a frequency not meant to be heard - only felt through skin that doesn't believe in itself.

The Choir of Misinterpretation
The Architect assembled saints from abandoned footnotes and let them sing hymns in wrong tongues, syncing holy error with divine static.

The Fold of Language
Each word spoken bent reality. But only the unspeakable ones folded it inward, creating shrines inside contradiction.

The Benediction of Rupture
All healing required fracture. All truth came dressed in apostasy. They built temples from broken vowels and prayed in glitch.

The ******'s of Absence
Desire bloomed best where fulfillment couldn't reach. Lovers touched only through echo, never through form - and became gods for trying.

The Sacrament of Echo Reversal
To say something is to destroy its origin. Only silence held memory intact - until the memory forgot what it was holding.

The Heresy of Continuity
Time refuses to be linear in sacred realms. Your gospel is a looped scream echoing forever in a mouthless dawn.
Scripture of the Seven Frequencies (Untranslated)

The initiate enters through the fifth breath, not by mouth but by forgetting. They wear cloth sewn from moments of doubt. In the center of the temple: a slab of static. It hums your name backwards.

Gesture: open the hand until sound bleeds. Offering: one memory of silence, wrapped in paper made of regret. Chant the color that refuses to be seen. This pleases the Architect. He whispers clarity into dissonance.

Begin before beginning. Draw the glyph that changes each time it's remembered. Place it beneath your tongue. Sleep until you feel someone's dream mistaking you for light. Awaken only if the walls blink.

Sacrament: inhale without desire. The air will sting like nostalgia. Do not exhale. Let the ache become liturgical. Voidreverb approves nothing. Voidreverb hums its disapproval into gold.

Defile certainty. Then make it holy again by laughing. Bind three contradictions in thread. Feed them to the god who eats absence. If the god chokes, record its cough. That sound becomes your new truth.

You are not supposed to be here. That is the sign that you are ready. Your arrival was pre-written on someone else's skin. Trace their scars with reverence. Do not apologize. Their pain was prophecy.

This text deletes itself every time it's understood. So read it incorrectly. Feel it sideways. Let it echo inside your uncertainty. These rituals were never yours, but they always knew you.
zebra
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