Desert desolation
Barren plains, inclement sun
Many starving apes, unaware of themselves
Unfinished men simply struggling for survive
Until one day
The monolith appears
Its smooth silhouette shines in the African sunrise
Soon curiosity prevails
Maybe we'll establish a connection
The sentinel is landed on the Earth
A dark shadow impending on us all
Whose fascinating aura leads
Our palms on his black surface
Rays of perception flowing in our brains
Evolution is written in the stars
Forgotten and forbidden interventions
New synaptic transmissions
Intelligence dawns today
Fireworks of thought are floating in our brains
The Dionysian
Man has been enslaved
The Apollonian
Leader of today
New born reason
And self-consciousness
Draw a wicked vision
Birth of violence
The first action
Of the Sapiens Man
Is an homicide
But the flying bone keeps on turning up
To the sideral space outside
Solar wind's blowing in our steel sails
On our way towards Jupiter
The monolith enlighted by the sunshine
Opened the Pandora's box
Extraneous geometric perfection
Has erased pre-human chaos?
We've been praying the sky for so long
And maybe we've never been wrong
HAL and the civilized man
Are both antithesis of themselves
When in Jovian orbit we connect
Light's exploding all around
Human being's genetic reconstruction
Thus spoke Zarathustra
Sinthesis of joy and reason
Interstellar metamorphosis
First of the Beyond-Men
The Starchild is born
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