As the light drops from your eyes
It brings out the waving hands
You shiver and the flags sway
Like a creature gasping on the shore
For breath that rips its lungs
Spluttering with its eyes a dull glaze
Your legacy
Your failures
Crushed and splintered
Your weakness sets in motion
A new, brave, bracing world
Where cold winds sting the dying few
Engulfed in a regolith of rock and dust
Vast, relentless stone rooms
A failed beginning...
Your legacy
Your failures
Crushed and splintered
And only scorched earth and old remnants endure
Did we deserve more?
Our estimates corrupted by greed
Senses failing - it rips my throat
No longer seen from the shore
The lights on your ship are dying
Vast nothingness
Dark, barren, empty
Naive to the lengths of ambition
It's hard to see until it's done
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