Merchants of Deceit - Psycroptic

They were watching…

Listening Ever patient awaiting the time

For they knew it would come it has always been so

Thus, forward they came…

An appeal to the heavens, spoken an age ago

Pleading for answers, offering all that was possessed

Shaman: scholars of the time close to the answer

Incapable of reaching perfect enlightenment —

Yet, help they would receive, at a price so immense, ambitious and selfish…

A mistake they should not have made

Our ancestors- our past has become our demise

Our ancestral representatives celebrated the arrival

The visitors from the sky…

Joyous with the knowledge that their appeal had been answered

These visitors — describing themselves as celestial gatherers, traders,

explorers

A half truth

Masking the deception beneath

Offering answers…

Knowledge and Truth…

But at a price, A fair exchange…

They requested life…

Aghast…

Apprehensive…

The forefathers refused

Negotiating;

the travellers explained that it would not be their lives;

Not those of the present era

It Would be the future populous: An age away: An age beyond imagination…

Our age

Nervously an agreement was made

The celestial ones prepared to reveal their knowledge with the select few to do

with as they saw fit

The chosen, schooled by the visitors from the sky not foreseeing the knowledge

that lag ahead

Not foreseeing the knowledge they would learn…

Unable to be purged from their mind…

Irreversible

Departing, the travellers were seen no more

The selected were left with knowledge unimaginable

Disturbed, overwhelmed — no choice but to cease their own existence

Their lives had become futile, with their infinite comprehension

Lives forfeit by their own trembling hands

Blood spilled instead of answers…

Long forgotten…

Unaware that we must uphold this pact…

A deal that exists despite the weakest of principals

They will fulfil a bizarre religious crusade

We belong to the celestial ones: The harvesters of the foolish…

Traders and gatherers they are: cunning in their methods

Exchanging what is required fur their spiritual needs our lives…

Any life unworthy…

Must be halted

Sustaining their faith

The unworthy are those who mishandle true insight

Betraying their future our planet, placed in total stasis…

With no meaningful continuation

Like countless before, and endless to come

This is how it will continue…

To save their own being

Giving a function, a purpose to their all-knowing lives

This is their belief… to weed out the feeble in the cosmos

Those who do not learn should not progress…

Those without understanding should not continue…