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Throughout time and turmoil

Mankind's gaze

Has ever turned skyward

Searching for transcendent blessings

And guidance and punishment

Looking for answers

Above and below

A frantic search

For the face of forever

A quest to unveil

The countenance

Of the many voids

To hearken

The thousand silences

Of the voices

Beneath the manifold

Clamor of creation

Seers, saints

And prophets all alike

Implore the skies

For a constellation of signs

Which heralds the final days

Of redemption for mankind

The faithful cowers in trepidation

Waiting for the stars to align

Circling through the celestial void

Stars send down spears of thin light

Down upon the teeming masses

Of mankind

Ensnared in a hermetic world

Of coldness and isolation

The eternal lament

Of the creatures of agony

Disappears within the vastness

Nothingness an entity unto itself

Emptiness crushing time itself

To earth confined

Devoid of infinity

Yearning spheres beyond

Following prophecies,

Auguries of absence

Wilt int he gaze of a blind

Destiny

The droning of quiescence

The clamor of silence

A vastness that dissolves and devours

A certainty of insignificance

From which all of mankind

Frantically flees

Down the dimly - lit

Corridors of the souls

Swathed in twilight

And filled with the shadows

And echoes of mortal desperation

The certainty that this is all that is

Hear us, heal us, lead us, save us

Prayers and sermons

Screams of the doomed

Rise towards and fade within

The void between the stars

The sole cosmic promise

Uttered from the mouth of infinity

Is that of eternal silence

Of vast endless spaces

All-pervading endless silence

Eternal quiescence