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Adrian Tellwright

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Lambda

      ...if there was a beginning,
             the beginning was the void,
      but the void was not nothing.

      There was light and the light changed.
              Now the void brought a world.
               And the world was good,
      for it endured for so long
that beings abounded as is believed
              that they could.

          But it came to pass
that one day
          the energy of the void
                pushed all things away,
                        leaving nothing but the void

but the void was not nothing.

For as the void collapsed
          there was light and the light changed.

              The void brought the world
                   and the world was good,
                 for it endured for so long
      that some men and some women thought
as they would to comprehend it
                 ..and so on to an end.

For it will come to pass,
          there will come a day
                when the energy of the void
                                will push
                                                      all things away,
          leaving nothing but the void,

          but the void is not nothing.

                                As space goes astray

- the void?     It'll shrink, ...giving out energy
                   as light

                and the light will change...

 

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