...this world will cool down...

…
this world will cool down,
a star among the stars,
one of the tiniest,
a speck of gilt on blue velvet,
that is, our vast world.

this world will cool down one day,
not even like an ice heap
or a dead cloud,
it will roll like an empty walnut
in the pitch-black, boundless void.
…

from the poem On Living by Nazım Hikmet
translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk (1993)