how to navigate a universe without purpose

First, accept.

The stars are only dead fires, beautiful and cold,

long-extinguished eyes.

Do not beg the void to answer.

It has no mouth.

It has only the dark.

And the dark is patient.

Carve your meaning like an epitaph,

deep, by hand, into the indifferent architecture of the world.

The universe will not read it.

Carve it anyway.