MORE THAN TIME WILL RUIN THE STARS

More than time will ruin the stars, Louise.

Stephen Baxter(1957-): Ring(1994,) page 74.

More than time will ruin the stars,

rip open the canvas from before the void,

the gaping maw of the abyss reveal

where all ends, where dead matter

and dead time repose.

The cosmos as our grave

where no inscribed stone shall our name

and fate declare, where nothing

remembers that we were and fought

against our fate and lost. 

Even our death will die in

the cool vistas of the cosmos

where doomed matter

is but a prelude to aeons

of changeless void.

Denied even remembrance, a memorial

to our bravado and rage before

the night closed in, our fate

- that no ripple shall show where

we sank - will ruin the stars for us.

17.03.2018