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"God is nowhere to be found, yet there is still so much light!

Light that dazzles and maddens;

crisp, ruthless light.

Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn.

Why does the sun take so long to die?

Or the moon retain such fidelity to the Earth?

Where is the new darkness?

The greatest of all unknowings? Is death itself shy of us?"

Born into the silence of death,

Slither and hiss, to serve the undulating darkness,

Devouring kin

Ripping and tearing through embryonic sacs of doom

Become reborn

Return to zero once more

To thrive on natural discourse

The ancient rite of shedding skins awaits us forever

On our journey to the start

Accelerate the eschaton

Extinguish all light

Under the cruelty of this cursed night

The dead walk among us

The silence of death itself

Silhouettes against the starless sky

And in death we are free