The Dead World

This world was dead from the start
 When the ancients first found this planet
 It was nothing but a wasteland
 A roiling sea
 Chaos and entropy
 Uninhabited
 Uninhabitable
 No sign of life
 A million miles away from home
 No light to guide
 Transplanting the seeds of hope
 They moved the mountains into place
 Terraformed the surface to their will
 They sculpted oceans out of desert space
 Flawless design in each detail
 (This world was dead from the start)
 A formless void
 A toxic tempest
 A new beginning
 Within their hands
 No sign of life
 A million miles away from home
 No light to guide
 Transplanting the seeds of hope
 They carved the rivers out of dust
 Transplanted forests where they stand
 Broke up the fallow planet's crust
 Injected life into the land
 No way to see it then
 No way to predict
 Hidden beneath the skin
 The host could not detect
 No way to see it then
 No way to predict
 Hidden beneath the skin
 The host could not detect
 There is a curse above the water
 And now it lives within us all
 It is a blight that will devour
 It will devour us all
 Lost forever
 Lost inside our own...
 Flesh
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 Flesh
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 No sign of life
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 No light to guide