The Looking Glass Volume 37 | Page 30

Someday, billions or trillions of years in the future,

all the stars and galaxies and nebulas and quasars

and planets and moons,

will be no more.

What a place would space be if it had nothing in it?

There would be no light, only darkness.

Not one single atom would drift through the universe.

And if there are other universes similar to ours out there,

they are in for the same fate.

The same fate that binds all things, animate or not,

is this concept of space and time.

It unites us, yet it is frivolous.

For all we are now, it is all for nothing.

Googols of years from now,

and googols of years to come after that,

the universe will be nothing.

The ability to travel anywhere infinitely, and arrive nowhere.

The universe will be like a big black room,

this time with no stars and no light.

Once I’m long gone – well I’m here now, and so are you.

It’s a fact that someday this universe will be nothing,

and memory won’t be memory

because nothing will be there to remember anything,

and that’s okay.

it was given to us on a silver platter.

More important than the earth, we are given time.

One day we’ll all be long gone, and that’s okay.

we have what time we are allotted.

Spend time as if it's more precious than money.

In this moment, in this very fading image of space,

just breathe.

Because someday we’ll be long gone,

But it is not this day.