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Ash covers everything

Black clouds blot out the sun

Drowned are the memories

Scorched remains of what once was

Eternal darkness

No guiding light

Ethereal wind picks up

Sparks drift through the night

Dive into oblivion

Ageless desolation

Plunge into obscurity

Relentless solitude

I’ll live one thousand years

Not measured in time

But in wisdom

To learn what I can know

And leave the rest up to my God

When I am done

I will lay down

Beneath the canopy

And watch as my body falls

With the Earth

I carve my sign into every tree

With force, with precision, with purpose

Neon aurora covers half the twilight sky

A gift from heaven to light my way

At the roots of the tallest tree

Gnarled hands build an altar of limbs

The alder torch weighs heavy in my hand

Ignite the final flame of man