I exit my derelict craft, the solitary survivor of humanity’s final, fruitless venture into the unknown I cannot adequately describe what I witness as I emerge from the wreckage – a tableau beyond all imagined visions of hell Purifying ethereal fire erases the remaining vestiges of man’s construction as it pa**es around me Radiant beings converge at the terrestrial zenith they dance, intertwine and ascend as a pillar of light into the expanse of stars, then they pa** out of sight leaving me all alone in this nightmare at the nadir of despair a sudden lucid call, a thundering echo cascade of thoughts entrances my mind no longer mine alone Visions flicker past my third eye each more vivid than the last testimony of how we fell beyond grace, beyond redemption And we silently departed having left no enduring mark With the last witness’ pa**ing No trace of our existence will remain Beneath my feet I feel the d**h throes of a forsaken planet As something unseen siphons the atmosphere into the void celestial vortex uprooting the last brittle trees from the arid ground axial rotation grinds to a halt and the solar wind purges away what’s left I lie on the shore of a vast crimson sea, my final breaths are escaping No tunnel of light stands before me, just an endless frigid expanse Drowning in the deluge of extinguished hopes And premonitions of futures that never will be