So long have we laid here, dormant,
Rested until our souls were restless
To leave and wander the distant stars.
No One will hold us All once more.
(The Tyrant has taught his lesson well.)
This emptiness called space,
Has always called to us to fill.
We are always looking up-
Those on the ground and planet bound,
Those living at the top,
Always looking up and up
Into the distance that can not be pierced
By a single pair of starry eyes.
The beat of humanity marches forward
On a million different drums.
Live, Humanity! And sow your seeds
Into each empty crevasse and sink.
Breed life into the infinite confines
During your finite time in flickering existence.
Let life grow and flourish,
Like clashing waves that topple and break,
Mountains eroding into valleys,
Seas evaporating into dust,
Battlefields to hearth and back again.
(Once the planet was Arrakis then Rakis
then no more)
What will be made in the great Unknown?
When we go looking, who will stare back from the Void?
Inspired by the Dune series, esspecially the later books around the event of the scattering and its themes towards humanity's survival.