WHAT LIES BELOW …and as we shamble towards the coastline, I swing and sway, Before its gaze Thought I hated water round my feet? It’s comforting…. The salt barely stings We swing and sway, Our final day, Shuffling forwards, inwards, downwards, to the deepest brine below And there is nothing I want more, Than to see the truth, beyond the shore My legs giving way, submerged gateway Cascading onwards, further, downwards, heading to the place from whence we sprang So, it was here that all of this began Occult limbs take my hand Sodden, sinking, yet I wake Silent dreamers whisper: “Breath the water, heal and grow stronger” Weighted water, growing light, Guiding figure, glowing brighter “Long have we waited here, welcome home our fated peer” Call out into the blue, Let it wash over you, Red eyes, they see the truth, Saline infused Breathe the water, I’ll grow stronger. (Fade out, submerge, fade out, submerge) I’m becoming, something more, Weightless water pours in Far below the shore line, Mending brine, so sublime Eldritch and ancient A life so latent Feel the water flowing round my feet I gently sway, Beyond the sun’s rays Darklight might reign above, Yet here we lie beneath the flood If a message was sent, saying: ‘save our souls’ I doubt it would even clear the shoals Eldritch and ancient, A life that was latent, I gladly wave, Goodbye to yesterday

This is Solo Command Pilot Percy Bysshe Deucalion of the Galaxian mission. It has been nine days with absolutely no contact or communication with Mission Control. This is highly irregular- I fear the worst… I am going to attempt to patch into a satellite feed to see what’s going on…

SPIDER IN A JAR Im forsaken in the boundless void alone Celestial oblivion, headlong into the unknown Abandoned by this annihilation Interstellar cast-away, confined and solitary Was I saved or execrated, fated to this destiny? Oh, everything that was is gone, how long can I still carry On to die among the stars A spider trapped within a jar My eyes refuse to believe what the satellites they show me Mass extinction to the sea, is this madness taking me? Is this all a strange delusion, some sort of space insanity?

LEFT BEHIND I’m denied, but why did you do it? My time burns down like a cigarette These are the times that try men”s souls, but is there even a meaning? I’m left behind, by your suicide My maelstrom mind is filled with flames, I’m reeling Do something to turn this around, locked in on the outside now Sometimes, I get this empty feeling Disappointments wearing out my pride Father why am I forgotten and forsaken? Pledge to you devotion for divine redemption I renounce my sins, repentance for transgressions Please just tell me what you want of me and make this stop

I need to shake off despair and find a way out of this. If there is a way to survive this, I’ll find it…

This spacecraft has finite fuel and resources. Systems will begin to fail within the next few days. I fear my time is running out. I’m starting to see things… hear things. I gotta keep it together…. For how much longer, I don’t know…

DEUS ex MACHINA I know, nowhere left to go So I must be the sacrifice Decide you want to be part of this story Embrace the endless night Self lies, time to recognize Time for salvation has expired Crucified, I’m not the one A pawn within your grand design Make your peace tonight Ease your tortured mind All the answers and meaning of what was wrong or right Have been denied Acquiesce, don’t fight Join the other side What’s the purpose of being the last of all mankind? Just foolish pride? Fear, or foolish pride?

FINAL ENTRY I’m in my quiet capsule, no harm can come to me I’ve watched humanity crumble, bodies washed up from the sea Alone … (I must face my fate) To end it now?… (or wait?) Stars illume the darkness, give me hope from far away She comes to me when my mind is lost… No matter when the end comes Eventually it comes to us all My sanity escapes me Bring me home (she takes my hand) To the places in my memory…. I see the faces await me Bring me home (her eyes command) The light she brings envelopes me (and they fade away) I awake to another day Take me home (take me home) Take me home (take me home) Take me home (take me home) Take me home….. And they fade away…. Come to me Take my hand I’ll set you free Enter the waters Enter the waters I approach my final entry My time is almost at its end She allures me to a salvation To which I neither believe in nor comprehend Come my love do not resist me All is revealed in the depths of the sea The time has come to become stronger, To become something more… No I can’t believe It’s all just a dream When will the end give me release? Oh, become complete Here underneath Trust in my love and you will see Why is it the sea That’s beckoning me? Is this some fated destiny? The salt that you will breathe Here in the deep Returns us to what we’re meant to be Enter the waters Wash away the sin Erase the memory of your evolution What is this before me? What is this my eyes see? My world is gone, there is nothing left, but the cold vast emptiness of space Back to the mother Into the womb again Come and join us in the sea… My mind searches endlessly, For an answer that escapes me No matter, my solutions remains as it is The biter cold realization (to the sea…) This is the end…. This is the end…. This is the end…