10:04 PM -

Between the deaths of a trillion suns

And the dawn of a trillion more

Between the Cambrian flood and fatal ebb

On a blue and wandering orb

A trillion souls bear witness

To a speck of dust in Time

And among the seas of consciousness

One traveler’s weary mind

The One that Time forgot

My destiny precedes me

The effect precedes the cause

My very soul stands in defiance

Of Nature’s sacred laws

I left that world a mortal man

With mortal hopes and fears

Then passed in but a heartbeat

Four thousand years

One thread pulled from the tapestry

Was destined to be mine

I am the wandering observer

Of countless grand designs

Somewhere out there

Someday amidst the nebulae

I will find whatever I must be searching for

An exodus of sentience across the cosmos

A thousand empires rise and fall

Infinite realities woven through the multiverse

And I have seen them all

The crushing weight of knowing on a cosmic scale

This is but the first page of the tale

Expansion and collapse

Premonitions of the end

With another oscillation

The stars are reborn once again

An exodus of sentience across the cosmos

A thousand empires rise and fall

Infinite realities woven through the multiverse

And I have seen them all

I lay my eyes level with the smallest of leaves

As the macrocosm dissolves

Now I see

The fourth dimension is me

None of this is real

It’s all so damned insignificant

One more breath

And I’m gone

Vast oceans of stardust

Will be scarred by my hand

I can show you the edge of Forever

From without the finite boundaries of mortality

To the very edges of the universe and beyond

Throngs of the faithful to the undying light

Shall come to heed the words

Of the One that Time forgot