When the stars dimmed without warning And the galaxies ceased their song The universe held its breath As shadow stretched beyond knowing. One closed his eyes to survive One reached for the fading flame One walked into the dark, unafraid Bound by silence, not by fate. She once danced in nebulae Her voice shaped the rhythm of time But now she drifts in silence Her crown eclipsed, her name forgotten. Not light, nor warmth, nor hope But the memory of brilliance A flicker held in trembling hands Before the void claims all. So the cosmos turns inward Its edges frayed by shadow And in the hush between pulses A whisper remains— “Even in darkness, something watches.”
