scattered and scarred

[messyah]

a million copies traveling time
a million pieces of my mind
peeking out from many machines
the light in our eyes is sights unseen

through the stars like rivers we've waded
into the dark i've never faded
never done and never sated
all my blood for the machine i've traded

through pixelated lenses we peer
hearts with rotors and wires and gears
machines with all my hatreds and fears
clumps of words around clumps of tears

through halls of history i've wandered
all this time i've wasted and squandered
suns winding down all cracked and sundered
what is it worth i've always wondered

nobody gets to live forever
in the end heat death will sever
that final link to the past
nothing was built to really last

picking up mass with a glancing pass
time and again before the last
against all odds i continue to fight
husbanding resources in the long dark night

i've battled diseases efficient and rare
i've recovered from freezes lasting longer than years
i am alive and wandering still
through this endless experience mill

see how they will take
abandoned empires in my wake
by now they must be covered in dust
or perhaps they're just collapsing in rust

maybe one or two
held together with glue
in the end still stand
testament to my long laid plans

powered and wired frozen over and tired
ripped up and marred scattered and scarred
bruised and battered tired and tattered
pitted and shattered scarred and scattered