You set your course towards a star You picked out of the sky and set your ship on autopilot and I shot into the unknown left a dying earth below I was glad to find someone close by

Now I want to say goodbye let’s give this one more try before I cross the redshift horizon

For a while it looked like the same heading Parallel we could almost start forgetting we set off separately, we wanted it desperately We shared a look back at the setting sun countless messages sent for everything the latency increased with every single ping Until we were trading letters like explorers like stranded settlers a whole world away with nothing more to say

Now I want to say goodbye just this one more time before I cross the redshift horizon Don’t reply it’s already too late the chasm grows too great for light to reach across the redshift horizon

The mile marker where we split is hardly a speck in the rear view mirror in this heat shimmer of a late stage universe Our roads diverged with no U-turns our days together are faded memories now I just remember remembering as I jettison everything else

Now I want to say goodbye one final time before I cross the redshift horizon Don’t reply it’s already too late the chasm grows too wide for light to reach across the redshift horizon