Dawn of the Ancient Blight

Civilization has come and gone before The rise of empires and the fall back to ruin The mechanics of their fall hidden until now Insidiously waiting deep within the ice And with the rise of modern man The ice begins to melt and fall away Infecting the oceans with the spores Humans face extinction once again The doom bringer locked in its stasis Brought back upon the surface Billions die in so little time Never a hope for this apex disease And as the masses panic as their loved ones die They themselves are badly infected They burn the cities, they lynch their leaders But they die in mass graves nonetheless A twenty-thousand-year cycle Man is toppled from his tower made of pride For deep beneath the ice caps They’ll freeze again, the cycle will repeat The doom bringer locked in its stasis Brought back upon the surface Billions die in so little time Never a hope for this apex disease