... and with the consequence of harmony's degradation Its equilibrium scorned in surrender Cause and effect, reversal of the order As with beginnings, a certainty of cessation is assumed as the concluding chapter The fundamental laws which determine this existence inevitably hasten its fate The expansion of this doomed universe in futility is scripted The measurement of beginning and end is rendering time defeated When all creation and nature returns to nothingness, the balance re-established, existence not even but a memory Stretching infinitely, forced into obscurity, no echo to remain A vacuous expanse of silence, outgrowing the legacy of sentience Forever extinguished A terminal absence befalls the empyrean void and collapses the configuration of vitality The procession of an instant to end all chronology The fundamental laws which determine this existence inevitably hasten its fate toward a point of conclusion Forever extinguished Extinguished.