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Fables of old whisper the lore

A legend borne of antiquity

I reached the field in the deep of the night

And witness a star-limned opacity

A shimmering tower of glass

Appeared at the prophesied time

Reaching the sky to pierce heaven's heart

Dimensions stagger the mind

Adorned in starshine

This voidborn design

The doorway protected by misty membrane

Air that resisted, then yields

Into a chamber of crystalline forms

And spiraling stairways revealed

Coursing upward into infinity

Step by step I ascended

My heart sang with awe and fear

Every chamber revealed splendors

The voice of the stars led me here

I watched the moon fall

Through misty clouds from above

I watched the world fall away

And bid farewell to all I had loved

Inside the sidereal spire

Ascending towards infinite stars

Time lost all meaning

Every new vista revealing

New worlds so much vaster than ours

Oh, the sights I have seen

The firmament's dream

Through celestial spheres

The starsong only I can hear

The voice of the stars led me here

Air growing thin, my fire burns low

Yet so much further to go

There's no return

To the life that I knew

I lay down my head

In the sky and think of you

Nebular warmth surrounds me

I died looking down

In the highest reaches

Where you will find my bones

Drifting forever in void

Dreaming forever of home