Eternal Recurrence

WGW
4/8/2026Aria v1
[Verse 1] I stepped beyond the wormhole into this broken, twisted frame Where physics frays and reality forgets its very name No remnants of America, no eagle’s final cry Just hollow echoes drifting where even hope goes dry The veterans’ ghosts still linger, some never made the crossing Lost forever in the collapse, their final battle costing [Chorus] I’m sending out the signal through the veil of endless night The universe has entered its degeneration era’s bite All that ever was is unraveling, fading out of sight Distressed, distressed… nothing left to f***t [Verse 2] Voyager One and Two are phantoms, their golden records erased Drifting as mere quantum foam in this degenerating space The Cosmic Microwave Background has long since died away Black holes have all evaporated, their last Hawking breath betrayed Protons decay in silence after eons past all measure Half-life beyond ten to the thirty-fourth or more, a timescale without treasure Each one crumbling slowly into positrons, pions, gamma rays so bright Then leptons and radiation, turning solid matter into light Atoms fall apart like sand, nuclei no longer hold Baryons vanish one by one, leaving only stories told Neutrons decay as well in this cold and final stage Free neutrons once unstable now vanish from the page Beta decay relentless, turning neutron into proton, electron, antineutrino stream But even bound within nuclei, stability becomes a fading dream After countless half-lives stretching far beyond all mortal ken No neutrons left to bind the cores, no stable nuclei remain Electrons decay in the deepest reaches of this terminal night Hypothetical yet relentless, their lifetime stretching beyond all light Breaking into photons and neutrinos or lighter particles unknown Leaving only a thinning plasma where no charge can call a home Neutrinos decay even later in this ultimate, silent fray Their tiny mass allowing decay into lighter states someday Turning into photons, electrons, or still more ghostly kin Until even these near-massless wanderers reach their end within After timescales vaster than any number we could name The last neutrinos flicker out, extinguishing the final flame Gravitons decay at the furthest edge of this degenerating dream The hypothetical ripples of gravity, once binding every scheme Now fading in the quantum foam, their curvature growing weak Gravity itself unravels, no more pull for space to seek After infinities of time, the last gravitational wave grows still Leaving only perfect flatness where no force can ever thrill Photons decay at the absolute end, in this final, lightless sea The last quanta of radiation, once eternal, now set free Stretched by endless expansion to wavelengths beyond all measure Their energy drained to nothing in the cold, perfect void forever Hypothetical yet inevitable in this terminal, silent night Even light itself surrenders, surrende