Colony Collapse

As we drift from dust to the stars

Celestial castaways

The ashes of a world behind

In frozen form displayed

What thrived, so full of life

In flames, soon did end

So goes the lot of man

Spiraling away into the black

Event horizon past

What began as tragedy

So quickly turned to farce

As tentacles entropy

Left no living thing untouched

(nothing left alive)

Backwards one billion years

Arc of light, solar wind

Rust and decay

From primal fist, to obelisk

Drifting, collapsing into time

Code-infused sophistry

And algorithmic certainty

A cut from the finest cloth

Through sentient circuitry

So cold to the touch

Pride in the face of madness

Carved in the image of man

What post-human prophecies upend

Not one could defend

Fed through the vector of time

Breed singularity

HAL never gave an answer

For what? Utopia? Delete!

Burning matter, Bleak horizons

Drifting onwards, into our waiting deaths

Colony collapse

Necroexodus

Colony collapse

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