The Adventurer's Manifesto

[Philatone]

I do think "expanding" gives you more than "meaningless". again, another actual image that more strongly suggests a circle of life (doesn't have to be death necessarily; I think something related to "age" could work wonders if it is not suggested too strongly. I think it would be relatively easy to create a strong image for it too, seeing how prevalent it is). understand if you disagree, but I really do think it would enhance the ending. as said, you have strong images before it.

With that in mind, I guess another option could be to start with the abstract (that 4th line), make it the first line, and then get progressively more concrete. It would make the abstractness less noticeable since it wouldn't be the ending of the images.