Believing, proclaiming, wearing the crown, pinnacle of creation

Its fatalistic assumption human kind has made

On the planet that is so wrongly called 'earth'

The initial and original keepers of this world still prosper freely among humans, subtly manipulating proceedings

The feeble five senses that humans possess, keep them veiled

What mankind cannot see is ignored

Yet their presence cannot be denied

The keeper's work is methodical, a simple task for immortals of this type

Reasoning for their labour cannot be explained in human tongue

Or understood by misleading simplistic emotions

The diluted answer being humanity was unintentional

In an age, long forgotten, the trials began

Proud doesn't describe what the keepers felt, 'Man' and 'Woman'

Vessels were entered by willing volunteers

Yet something instantly was wrong, inside the vessel they became trapped

Becoming one with the body not just a passenger

Flawed in design, irreversible consequences

Comprehension of the error bringing inexpressible grief

Confined to their new prisons, the tainted two expelled and ostracized

Primitive actions for an evolved kind

Symbols of failure to be forgotten

Unrestricted by the human physical form

But bound by a timeless code

They unemotionally await a natural end to their trial, the 'human race

They created, but cannot destroy, science their god

Thus research is holy

Before work can begin again on the unforgotten perpetual quest there must be closure to their greatest failure

In their eyes

The human body was intended

Designed and created as a vessel

A primitive yet resilient shell to carry the keepers through folds in time

A simple organic data storage tool with a finite duration

Existence as it is known by man was not intended

Using knowledge of vessel duplication

The tainted sought retribution to create a race of a failed breed

Shaming the keepers for millennia

Forced to watch the tainted become a plaque

Capable yet powerless to cleanse the earth directly

Loopholes revealed in the ancient code as time progresses

The manipulation begins

Mankind accepts destructive common events

Diseases, war, disasters are all experiments in progress

The keepers refining their means of cleansing the earth

While a blindly expanding civilization awaits their eviction