Night Thoughts Break-Down

This is meant to be a guide to understanding the excerpt, specifically in relation to the game.

This guide will go over sections of the poem that convey a thought or idea, and may not necessarily be line for line. The goal is to give a brief explination as to the meaning or feeling of the sections and will not preserve any metaphors used.

Lines in Red are the most important to the game.

Poem

By Nature's law, what may be, may be now; There's no prerogative in human hours:		Humans are not special and we must live by the rules of nature.
In human hearts what bolder thought can rise, Than man's presumption on tomorrow's dawn?		The boldest thought a person can have is they will live to see tomorrow.
Where is tomorrow? In another world.		We can never know the future.
For numbers this is certain; the reverse Is sure to none;		Many people have died, and none have ever become immortal
and yet on this perhaps, This peradventure, infamous for lies		However, we do not fully understand nature, and many things we once thought were true, turned out to be lies.
As on a rock of adamant we build Our mountain hopes; spin out eternal schemes, As we the fatal sisters would outspin,		So, we hope desperately that maybe we will live forever, and make plans as if we were immortal.
And, big with life's futurities, expire.		And in the middle of these hope and plans we die.

TL;DR Summary

People think they will live forever, but they won't! No one has achieved immorality (yet.)

But we don't really know how the world works, so maybe, just maybe you'll become immortal.

But probably not!

You'll probably die while all your plans for the future are still in motion.