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Here I stand

On the edge of a machine

A spherical mass

Dwarfing the sun

Faced with the ultimate

End of existence

My eyes stare

Into infinity

I walk along

The surface of light

Contemplating how

It will end for me

I know there

Is no other choice

I must make

My sacrifice

Heart and mind

Are conflicted

As I force

My hand into the sphere

I am soon

Consumed in its light

Falling inside

This machine

My arms desperately

Try to grasp

Something, but nothing

In eternity

Here I stand

Inside of this machine

Vertigo obscuring

All my vision

The figures before me

Barely shadows

Try to explain

This feeling to me

Mind is relaxing

The pain is fading

My feelings of fear

Have subsided

Is this the life

That awaits me

After death?

Is this to be

My continuance?

Welcome to

A simulated world

This is to be

Your existence

Body has died

But life pushes on

Mind integrated

In this machine

A massive, galactic

Universal brain

Infinite in

Its calculations

We have remained here

For 900 years

Studying life that never

Has been seen

Isolated from

The outside worlds

Contained in our

Digital spheres

Our bodies perished

So long ago

But we live on

In the form

Of information

We know you do not

Belong here

Your destiny awaits

In the coldness of space

Take what we have to

Impart to you

Our infinite knowledge

Here I stand

On the edge of the machine

Arms open

And ready to leave

A short breath I take

Before

Light speed