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The Echo of Stars

Nicholas Kyle Edwards

Dec 29, 2024

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The Echo of Stars

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We are born in the wreckage of creation,

shattered pieces, sparks of fire,

existing only to burn,

to build something from the ashes.

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When we gaze into the vast expanse,

the Universe stares back,

an infinite mirror reflecting our mortality.

The stars, so close to death,

blink in time with our fleeting breaths.

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Moonlight spills like a ghost

across the cold emptiness of space,

one second, just a murmur of the past,

as sunlight claws its way through the dark,

eight minutes lost, swallowed by time.

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The cosmos is a web of broken branches,

spreading, reaching, consuming.

We are threads in this tangled whole,

a cycle unbroken, yet endlessly displaced.

Time bends and folds,

but does it ever truly disappear?

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What is eternity to us?

A word, a dream, a fleeting wish

caught between our hands,

too human to ever grasp.

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The Earth will crack,

the Sun will explode in fiery surrender,

and galaxies will twist and die,

only to birth something unknown.

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But what of you and I?

Are we stardust, as they say?

Are we nothing but reflections of a universe

that doesn't care to understand our time,

our limits,

our measure?

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We are not the center of this world.

The cosmos is grander than our comprehension,

Still, we cling to the illusion of control.

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Table of Contents

#1 Ashes and Reverie

#2 Strings of Fate

#3 Shadows of Opposition

#5 Strings of Ignorance

#6 Shadows We Inherit

#7 Restless Light

#8 The Hollow Gaze

#9 The Echo of Stars

#10 Coastline Reverie

#11 The Passage of Time

#12 Chasing Empty Stars

#13 The Water Cycle

#14 The Unseen Creation

#15 Caught in the Net

#16 Tide of the Hollow

#17 The Roar Between Waves

#18 Cloth of Illusion

#19 First Love, Sand

#20 Eternal Embrace

#21 The Bargain

#22 Where the Stars Glint

#23 Morning Reverie

#24 The Price of Power

#25 Learning to Love

#26 In the Dark