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Let there be light!

Behold the Garden of Eden

Bathed in ultraviolet and fulmination

Nigh-infinite untold worlds

Unseen, lost and forgotten

Organic crystallization

A magma miasmic, bubbling, swirling

Whispers of primitive chemistries

Poems and prose in scripts of replication

Mutatious lexicon

Genesis

Imminent speciation

Flowing with acrid ichor

Division, swelling, expanding intensify

Dominion, animated, ascendant

Transcriptional and nucleotidal

Prolifically suicidal

Encumbered by growth itself

Hark! Life becomes death

Gradually petrified

Self-inflicted genocide

Reproduction rectified

Suffocate solidified

Atoms cease, vitrified

Coils writhe, unalive

Unalive, unalive

Boundless becoming bound

Burning spark terminal and fated to be

A headstone of aeons

Ontological mysterium

Triumphant obelisk

Calcified effigy of what once was

A monument to the unliving

Cenotaph of centuries

And glories past

Testament to the ancient