The Universe

The universe is mine alone
The great expanses of stars
That cause my eyes to grow teary and my chest to swell

The empire is mine
The expanse of cities and the faces smiling hopeful laughing
The children run at my feet
Parks are crowded with my subjects
All the people that shall never enter me

My gates are tall and invisible
They reach from within me and extend out to the stars
I can touch the sun with my hand
The universe is mine

I can swim through time
Through black holes
I have seen quasars I have seen beginning and have some notion of the end
Men built with stones my hands sow clouds, earth, steel and knowledge
The world is mine
The countries are known to me
The peoples are cold to me

I can make things that never were
I can think and it is so
All is below me
All are around me
They will never welcome me
They cannot see

My universe is a cold void
It is mine and mine alone
In my universe each day is a struggle
The atoms of stars burst and explode
Plumes of light cascade so beautiful
And so wrought by cries
Cries of not yet, not now
They are never ready to dissolve their time cannot be up
In my universe destiny is to revert to the dark that so consumes

My universe is vast and empty
Perhaps something lies in all the darkness
But I cannot see it
It is mine yet I cannot see