Star of Extinction

A stirring shadow spirals overhead To pierce the armored atmosphere Impending impact brings the end to our being Condemned to repeat time and history A calamity from the skies, on a crash course to collide Finite and fragile, Impotent and ephemeral Eight billion breaths force-fed with ash by death's cosmic grasp In the face of disarray, guilt and remorse Lifeforms clinging as the final chapter closed Oh, in feverish obscurity The distant tremors echo near For all is dust from cradle to grave Hold tight and revere the hours that remain And with extinction comes a falling star Her hooves beat down this borrowed soil Oh, to bring forth the end Negation of existence Constrained to a universal funeral A planet void of use The future's fragmentation Reduced to a universal funeral Condemned to repeat time and history Existential expiration For the banished and forgotten