*within a day, we'd forced the world to stop.
within a week, we'd broken what it meant to suffer.
in two months, we'd traveled eternity.
within a year
we'd left the gods.
but no matter how much we tried,
no matter how much time we burned to ash,
we could never destroy
inevitability.*
Feb 2, 2017
Feb 2, 2017 at 2:51 PM UTC
*within a day, we'd forced the world to stop.
within a week, we'd broken what it meant to suffer.
in two months, we'd traveled eternity.
within a year
we'd left the gods.
but no matter how much we tried,
no matter how much time we burned to ash,
we could never destroy
inevitability.*
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