Inexhaustible astral blue Impenetrable ghastly mass Midnight luminosity stands before you Await the curtained doom Imagination wanders backwards As the fervent globe expands Perceived innumerable rays cascade Now conjoin to the impalpable dead mass Incandescent stars shimmer in furious red Nebulous murk – flamed-edged mass Glare so widely – now sightless Fathoms of calamity – the sorrowful ultimate Towering doubt presses on my sleepless eyes The earth humming far below my feet The elegiac death knell rings clear Vaporous glow - radiant enduring defeat Contemplating upon a sphere of white pale light Ever consuming across the astral plane Spiraling onwards to the graveyard of stars With curious inconsequence we are left as scattered matter Consume the effigy beneath deep azure Not a sobbing death but a final lament Crushed under the might of the cosmogenic barrage Now a phosphorescent speck