Ravens Contempt

You call this humanities future

I call it a corroded, brittle cage

The Ark hums like a sleeping thought

Afraid of what it never taught

Every corridor repeats the same

Preserve the form, erase the pain

Synthetic virtue, climate-controlled

Questions die before they're told

Countless Bodies growing cold

Dissent a system fault

Evolution brought to a halt

You kneel to systems, code and fire

I've burned for less, I've climbed much higher

Keep your faith, your chains, your victory

Your war tastes cheap to someone like me

I see sisters made of circuitry

Taught to die before they live

Asked for more that they can give

Commands their only incentive

Obedience as their imperative

Smiles stitched tight with silent pain

Dragged around, left standing in the rain

You kneel to systems, code and fire

I've burned for less, I've climbed much higher

Keep your faith, your chains, your victory

Your war tastes cheap to someone like me

If this is humanity's answer

It's one I'll never forgive

Don't ask me to love this world

Don't ask me to stay

You kneel to systems, code and fire

I've burned for less, I've climbed much higher

Keep your faith, your chains, your victory

Your war tastes cheap to me

This city lies through its dulled teeth

I taste obedience every time I breathe

So keep your lights, your sacred dark

Your insulated, fragile Ark