The Sapien Shadow

I saw their vision across the stars Vast empires proliferate to systems far Suffered have I throughout millennia Surrendered the mind to sophic oblivion I gaze into the sapien shadow Peripheral currents coursing through marrow No longer of human condition The fate of all life still extinction Still captive within the eternal And everything moulders infernal From beyond the cosmic birth To beyond the conscious mind More than the legacy of life on Earth But inceptual seeds echoing through time From microbes to vertebrates From wayfarers to starsteppers Divergent branches progenerate To the outermost stars intrepid The onset of time’s decay and dust On the worlds we’ve left behind A harrowing and inevitable dusk Upon the weary eyes of our kind With void unending before us Starless and open beneath We fall into an ocean enormous An anticlimactic defeat The cosmic dice are rolling Not cubic but spherical Abyssal giants approaching These monkeys need a miracle Like lemmings engulfed by the billions Hypoxic en masse ebullisms A black hole lives up to its purpose And all we endured, was it worthless?

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025