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Now I close these eyes one final time

And sing my farewell to lonesome skies

The stars still turn, the stars still shine

But my heart is old, worn and malign

All I have seen, all I have felt

The galaxy is nought but an empty hell

Mindless spacetime, heartless tableaux

I yearn for oblivion and so I go

To sleep

And dream

Hopeless, homeless, coldness

Weightless, ageless, aimless

Hopeless, homeless, searing coldness

Dreams of sunlit clear blue skies

Weightless, ageless, ever aimless

Drifting through eternal night

Endless heartache, senses ablate

A weary mind and tired soul

So I escape to bright dreamscapes

Where I seek some sweet repose

Somnolent, discontent, temporal transient

Still breathing but I ask 'wherefore'?

Now to hibernate, slumber, self-negate

One last glance and glimpse before

I sleep

And dream