Age cannot dim nor time reverse, the withering regret we become as agents that fall through time and space. A slow descent into minds made mad with hopeless courage. How can a life last longer than this? Time stretched into horizons that imagine vistas of wonder striding into the distance and echo the creation of the world. The heartbeat before the universe was rent and in a cataclysmic birth spawned the stardust that invades and nurtures our being. For that which makes us in the end tears us apart. Yet through it all never should hope leave until the last breath is drawn and peace takes us to those we have missed and the next great adventure.