Sounds Of Dark Matter

Words sent from suffocating voids
Burnt worlds, muffled voices
Trying to share our own burden
Children beware, your bones will dry
Who’ll come and dig them up in the furnace?

Stars burn in quick descent
Our dead behold the reddest dawn
Time is grinding the strongest walls

No time to bury your remains
No planets left to save our kind

And on the brink we stand
Facing the end
As did million empires before ours

Dead dust speaking from the past
Transmitting to all lifeforms
In notes and runes forgotten
Old ghosts floating into space
Hoary spheres burnt, charged with wisdom
Million light-years of void

Trying to reach out through centuries
While all is ashen… and ground to silence

Dead dust speaking from the past
Transmitting to all lifeforms
In notes and runes forgotten
Old ghosts floating into space
Hoary spheres burnt, charged with wisdom

Message in a stainless steel bottle
A list of our beautiful failures
The last attempt at grandeur,
Before all collapses to none
A golden record sent through space
To account for billions of lives
An epic speckle of dust into the void