The Coquina Walls of Castillo San Marcos in Saint Augustine, Florida, Swallowed Cannon Balls Deeply, No Escape

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The universe may not end endless.  Black

Infinity surrounds it, though.  This dark

Is fact.  The stars that we can see are flak

Against this bendless truth, shot anti stark

Implacability.  The cosmos may

expand, E x p a n d, E…X…P…A…N…D.  Its light may go

Forever outward, where there waits no day,

Where beams may peter out.  The stellar glow

Will disappear forever at the last

And only, ONLY vacuum will reign.

This utter nothingness will linger, vast

Beyond known vastness, leaving not a stain.

  No record will be left.  Rosetta stone?

    None.  Echoes none.  Not even blackest groan.

~ Phillip Whidden