When time began galaxies span
Oceans were drawn to the shore
The will of the moon decreed that the waves
Advance and retreat evermore
Called forth to swim in the river of time
Humanity fighting to live
Each being merely the latest in line
Receiving what ancestors give
All of them soon demonstrably gone
Absented from physical strife
'Dead' - denoting the end of a song
Describing an absence of life
If 'darkness' describes the absence of light
And 'death' is to life likewise
Then he who has lived must wink out of sight
And go to no-where when he dies
All of we humans destined to die
Flawed anti-entropic machines
Transmitting new errors to new nuclei
Our data bleeding from genes
Should in the future all come to naught
And phenomena find itself stilled
Then shall nothing have ended the world
And time by death have been killed
If ever and never together have sprung
And never forever may see
Then nothing may something one day become
And something may still nothing be
And one day the frozen corpse of the sun
Must rot in a dead galaxy
And never again will the universe deign
To accommodate humanity
But the universe is - not just a room
Complete with a door and its locks
It was woven upon the loom
Of the one outside of the box
Time and tide and you and I
Exist at his decree
He does not rest - he does not die
For he is aeternity
Know that the one who stoked up the sun
And lit the bright stars that burn
Will not forget each faithful one
Whose heart does love him in return
When his time comes to recreate
Then death, where is your gain
For our Creator in his great love
Shall bid us to live once again
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