All Falls Down
May 24, 2015 23:18:10 GMT -5
Post by Max on May 24, 2015 23:18:10 GMT -5
Silence. Utter darkness over the screen.
“A man once said…”the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”
The words ring out of the dark as he leans forward, his face just a malevolent shadow, barely visible.
“That was a lie.
There’s no Hell. No Heaven. Nothing in between but the dark. Just the cruel, black, nothing. There’s no reward for any of us, no punishment for our so-called sins...Nothing.
Just life...and then not life.
Light...and then dark.
A beginning and an end. And drudgery between. All these...petty foibles. The squabbles of men and beasts. They don’t mean a thing. None of this...NONE OF IT…”
The voice raises for the first time. Almost an approximation of rage. It fades as quickly as it came.
“Means anything.
You haven’t learned. None of you have learned. I’ve told you. I’ve...taught you...But you won’t listen. None of you believe me. You don’t understand, in fact, you refuse to understand. It’s right there, in front of you, plain to see. The proof. The bodies, piling up, right under your noses, but you just…
You ignore them. Set them aside. Pretend none of it exists, that it’s all hyperbole. You wrap yourselves back up in your needless, pointless lives...your petty squabbles. You all try to prove your dominance over one another, try to prove who’s...better…
You scrape and you claw for a shiny little bauble…”
He sneers, shaking his head.
“You fight...over nothing.
It means...nothing.
None of this means ANYTHING….And still you’re all here, gibbering like fools, proclaiming your worthiness. All of you, so...hungry for something that means absolutely nothing. Grasping for a crown that will only tarnish to rust in the end.
You don’t get it.
None of you. None of you...get it.
But you will.
I’ll show you. I’ll make you understand. You’ll see the meaninglessness of all this. The futility. That all these petty squabbles and fights for supremacy are nothing but needless, fruitless labors for a reward that just….that just won’t come. I’ll show you that you’re all just...meat.
Grist for the mill.
Bodies, beneath the silt.
Just like me.
This thing...that you all covet. That you’re all so desperately fighting for. This prize that all of you...from the little pretty girl, to the handsome prince...the sleaze king, the feigned monster and the working man….this shiny trinket you all are so eager to wrap around your waists...I’m gonna take it from you. Just like that. Pull it out of your grips. Show you how little it really means. Show you, truly illustrate for you the nothingness that this sordid existence will have to offer. I’m going to take your precious golden idol, your...Apex...and drag it down beneath the waves, deep, deep under the mud...to be forgotten. I’m going to take it...and hold it just out of your reach, til the bitter end.
I’m going to make you see what I see.
Understand the way of things.
It doesn’t matter which of you gets what part in this play...I’m going to cut the strings. And then…
Then….you all fall down.
And down, and down, and down. Tumbling into that inky dark, forgotten. Worthless. Needless. Down, and down, down...
Into the abyss.
Into the black.
Into nothing.
Just. Like. Me.”
“A man once said…”the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”
The words ring out of the dark as he leans forward, his face just a malevolent shadow, barely visible.
“That was a lie.
There’s no Hell. No Heaven. Nothing in between but the dark. Just the cruel, black, nothing. There’s no reward for any of us, no punishment for our so-called sins...Nothing.
Just life...and then not life.
Light...and then dark.
A beginning and an end. And drudgery between. All these...petty foibles. The squabbles of men and beasts. They don’t mean a thing. None of this...NONE OF IT…”
The voice raises for the first time. Almost an approximation of rage. It fades as quickly as it came.
“Means anything.
You haven’t learned. None of you have learned. I’ve told you. I’ve...taught you...But you won’t listen. None of you believe me. You don’t understand, in fact, you refuse to understand. It’s right there, in front of you, plain to see. The proof. The bodies, piling up, right under your noses, but you just…
You ignore them. Set them aside. Pretend none of it exists, that it’s all hyperbole. You wrap yourselves back up in your needless, pointless lives...your petty squabbles. You all try to prove your dominance over one another, try to prove who’s...better…
You scrape and you claw for a shiny little bauble…”
He sneers, shaking his head.
“You fight...over nothing.
It means...nothing.
None of this means ANYTHING….And still you’re all here, gibbering like fools, proclaiming your worthiness. All of you, so...hungry for something that means absolutely nothing. Grasping for a crown that will only tarnish to rust in the end.
You don’t get it.
None of you. None of you...get it.
But you will.
I’ll show you. I’ll make you understand. You’ll see the meaninglessness of all this. The futility. That all these petty squabbles and fights for supremacy are nothing but needless, fruitless labors for a reward that just….that just won’t come. I’ll show you that you’re all just...meat.
Grist for the mill.
Bodies, beneath the silt.
Just like me.
This thing...that you all covet. That you’re all so desperately fighting for. This prize that all of you...from the little pretty girl, to the handsome prince...the sleaze king, the feigned monster and the working man….this shiny trinket you all are so eager to wrap around your waists...I’m gonna take it from you. Just like that. Pull it out of your grips. Show you how little it really means. Show you, truly illustrate for you the nothingness that this sordid existence will have to offer. I’m going to take your precious golden idol, your...Apex...and drag it down beneath the waves, deep, deep under the mud...to be forgotten. I’m going to take it...and hold it just out of your reach, til the bitter end.
I’m going to make you see what I see.
Understand the way of things.
It doesn’t matter which of you gets what part in this play...I’m going to cut the strings. And then…
Then….you all fall down.
And down, and down, and down. Tumbling into that inky dark, forgotten. Worthless. Needless. Down, and down, down...
Into the abyss.
Into the black.
Into nothing.
Just. Like. Me.”