fleeting nights (turn into fleeting eons)
Have you ever wondered how it feels to stand at the edge of the world and jump
To be there and for a moment be suspended in the air
just for a moment in the stillness
in the peace at the edge of the world
and then in your ears
deafening the wind billowing
as you plummet
and fall
and fall
and fall
and fall
the void greets you with greedy arms open wide
striping the last of your humanity
As flesh disintegrates back to stardust
Rejoining the cosmos it came from
As consciousness fades
the endless cycle continues
The death and rebirth of a star
The collapsing of a universe
All in a second
And you fall
Would you be laughing
With the void,
As abyssal night overtakes your field of view
Or perhaps tears would rush down your face
The great darkness taunting you in your last and first moments
A primordial fear resurfacing
A primal urge to flee
A sense of regret
An urgency to turn back time
Or perhaps you’d be emotionless
Apathetic like the great stars you came from
Cold warmth as you return to the abyss
The void twinkling a brief hello
Uncaring welcome in its depths
Have you ever stared the void in its foreign unblinking eyes and said
Tonight is my last, I’ll make it last
I have
And the void spoke
Rejoice it said, rejoice in the humanity you have and never had
Rejoice, be merry, take an eon in a night
I’ll be here when you’re ready to return
And that night, as the abyss invaded my soul
The silence of the winds shriek all I could hear
Body falling apart under the pressure of uncountable suns
I rejoiced in the last moments
The freedom id gained and lost in a short unending moment
So I guess my question is-
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the cosmos is in all, and to the cosmos all will return
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Written on December 16, 2021
Submitted by on January 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,651 |
Words | 333 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 4, 6, 3, 6, 5, 2, 4, 5, 1 |
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