72 Hours
Ephemeral Echoes: Unveiling Humanity's Shadows
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Helpless hands reach from the earth,
Depicting a sense of helplessness as hands emerge from the ground, symbolizing an inability to escape or resist.
Unwillingly set in their graves.
Refers to individuals being unwillingly confined to their graves, perhaps metaphorically restrained or trapped.
A process of deconstruction
Describes a continual breakdown or deconstruction, gradually dismantling something indefinitely.
Piece by piece, forever disassembled.
Portrays a perpetual disassembly, suggesting a never-ending process of breaking apart.
Suit and tie,
Represents a formal, conventional appearance often associated with authority or professionalism.
veiled in a moral façade.
Indicates a hidden or deceptive moral front, masking true intentions or actions.
Eclipsed inside a self-righteous paradox,
Describes being overshadowed by a contradictory sense of moral superiority.
Where we trade skin and bone,
Implies the exchange or sacrifice of essential parts (skin and bone) for something negative.
for the hate on the tongue of a child made alone.
Suggests the corruption of innocence, where a child learns and adopts hate while isolated or abandoned.
Sync to the sounds of depravity
Describes being synchronized or attuned to the sounds and behaviors of moral degradation.
Asleep in a war machine,
Refers to a state of being dormant or unaware while participating in a destructive system (war).
lulled in an abstract slumbering,
Describes a state of being lulled or entranced into a disconnected, distant state.
Descend into endless sleep,
Symbolizes descending into an eternal state of rest or slumber.
as the lantern burns eternally.
Portrays an everlasting or continuous burning of a lantern, possibly signifying an enduring source of pain or suffering.
Have we constructed the edge of creation?
Questions if humanity has reached the limit or boundary of its creative capabilities.
Are these ends of purity, the means of an iconoclast?
Asks if actions perceived as pure or righteous actually serve as the methods for breaking down established norms or beliefs.
Shattered Horizons
Refers to shattered or broken possibilities for the future.
We witness through a screen, the contrasts of humanity.
Observes the observation of human contradictions and extremities through a medium (like a screen).
Ash douses the hues of the skyline.
Depicts the dominance of ash, symbolizing destruction, over the once vibrant skyline.
72 hours.
Suggests a short, specific period of time, possibly referring to a critical or decisive moment.
History is written by the victors,
Highlights the creation of a biased, dishonest historical narrative by those who achieve victory.
assembling a passage of dishonesty.
Portrays the assembly of a false, deceitful passage in history.
Are we so disconnected from our empathy that our lessons are doomed to repeat?
Questions if society's disconnect from empathy will cause it to repeat past mistakes.
Three days later we dropped Armageddon on the rising sun,
Recalls a historical event where immense destruction was caused within a short period.
initiated a contract to trade our blood for the gun.
Implies a willingness to exchange blood for weapons or violence.
Eternity in seconds, breathing - pleading for the light to fade.
Describes a brief, intense experience where one pleads for an end or escape from suffering.
Off metallic wings the end came crashing,
Symbolizes a catastrophic event descending suddenly and destructively.
All to none - without a trace.
Describes an event where everything turns to nothingness without a trace.
Heartlessly wish the damage away,
Portrays a callous desire to ignore or erase the damage caused.
Blur the line, burn the hope nuclear disarray.
Suggests blurring the boundaries and causing complete chaos, destroying all hope.
Burying a child in decay,
Symbolizes the tragic act of burying a young life in decay.
A massacre for political praise.
Depicts a massacre done for political gain or recognition.
Faltered in your outlines ,
Describes a failure or deviation from predefined paths leading to the termination of life.
Creating an end to life.
Portrays the act of creating an end or conclusion to life.
'I am become death,
Quotes a line symbolizing the embodiment of destruction and the end of existence.
destroyer of worlds''
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