Between the deaths of a trillion suns And the dawn of a trillion more Between the Cambrian flood and fatal ebb On a blue and wandering orb
A trillion souls bear witness To a speck of dust in Time And among the seas of consciousness One traveler's weary mind
The One that Time forgot
My destiny precedes me The effect precedes the cause My very soul stands in defiance Of Nature's sacred laws
I left that world a mortal man With mortal hopes and fears Then passed in but a heartbeat Four thousand years
One thread pulled from the tapestry Was destined to be mine I am the wandering observer Of countless grand designs
Somewhere out there Someday amidst the nebulae I will find whatever I must be searching for
An exodus of sentience across the cosmos A thousand empires rise and fall Infinite realities woven through the multiverse And I have seen them all
The crushing weight of knowing on a cosmic scale This is but the first page of the tale
Expansion and collapse Premonitions of the end With another oscillation The stars are reborn once again
An exodus of sentience across the cosmos A thousand empires rise and fall Infinite realities woven through the multiverse And I have seen them all
I lay my eyes level with the smallest of leaves As the macrocosm dissolves Now I see The fourth dimension is me None of this is real
It's all so damned insignificant One more breath And I'm gone
Vast oceans of stardust Will be scarred by my hand
I can show you the edge of Forever
From without the finite boundaries of mortality To the very edges of the universe and beyond Throngs of the faithful to the undying light Shall come to heed the words Of the One that Time forgot