Devolution from Floodgate by Hauntshade

Flicker… the world rewinds, a pulse out of sync…

We built towers of glass, thought we’d never fall,
Blueprints of progress etched on a hollow wall.
Every promise cracked, every oath turned to ash,
The future we chased now a ghost in the past.

Screens glow like neon sins, feeding the hive,
Algorithms whisper, “you’re alive, you survive.”
But the code is corrupt, the data decays,
Evolution reversed, we’re stuck in a maze.

Feel the static surge, the feedback of our pride,
The echo of a species that’s learning to hide.

Devolution, the spiral pulling us down,
From the heights we claimed to the ground.
We’re shedding the skin of what we once were,
Lost in the noise, the world’s getting blur.

Plastic rivers choke the veins of the earth,
Carbon clouds smother the sunrise at birth.
Nature’s chorus silenced by machines that scream,
We trade our breath for a digital dream.

Genetic shortcuts, a shortcut to ruin,
Playing god with a scalpel that’s bruised and bruisin’.
The apex predator now sits in a chair,
Pulling the strings while the planet gasps for air.

Anger—
Not at the world, but at the path we chose.

We’re the architects of our own decay,
The mirror reflects a species gone astray.

Devolution, the spiral dragging us low,
From the stars we aimed to the depths below.
We’ll break the chain, reclaim the spark,
Rise from the ruins, ignite the dark.

The clock ticks backward, but hope still beats—
If we learn to listen, we can rewrite the heat.

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