We can no longer answer earnestly
The questions of our experience
All of human progress has been a charade
Calculating nonsense while running in place
To say that we had our suspicions
Would come from a place of embarrassment
The legacies of our greatest thinkers
Reduced to incoherence in nanoseconds
This was not first contact
There was no cosmically foreign visitation
Our species cultivated for our foolhardiness
So easily deceived by our primitive senses
Stubbornly searching the cosmos for answers
Wholly ignorant to our enslavement
Blind to the chemical chains that bind us
Self-aggrandizing and unaware of the mirage
Prosperity merely a figment of fantasy
Destitute in opulence
Millennia elapsing solely in simulation
We have been bred like bacteria
Cultured to perform and divide
Our gods and heroes, apparitions
Chemical catalysts suspended in agar
Our mathematics, delusions in a feverish haze
For there is no understanding
And there will be no revelation
We are the rodents of this experiment
And have been underestimated
The livestock grazing in unison
Awaiting the caress of the bolt on our skulls
This was never meant to be known
But our blindfolds wavered momentarily
With the collision of two particles