Aftershine

As last brown dwarfs turn cool

As billions of years pass

In freezing whirlpool

Of interstellar gas

Bounded by fear

Concealed in shade

All we held dear

Will slowly fade

To aftershine

As singularities

Consume all the mass

And capture the time

A frozen hourglass

Bounded by fear

Concealed in shade

All we held dear

Will slowly fade

Leave substance behind

Nothingness awaits

Particles declined

The real disintegrates

What a mute spacetime

Where souls prevail

Not a noise not a vibe

Unable to quail

To misread a sign

To remember the pain

By light defined

We all slowly fade

To aftershine