The Way it All Ends
It all seemed to happen just
like that ..
Before the eyes could blink
and the brain
could assimilate, or reason ..
It wasn’t even
a blur, but rather a smudge
uncontained,
within such a blinding light ..
And then seared,
unforgiving onto all available
retinas ..
Indeed, no one even heard it
coming either
and fortunately none of them
are thought
to have felt a single thing ..
Which is,
of course, insane under such
circumstances
but maybe, a blessing also
and now
more than likely unprovable ..
Without
a shadow of doubt though all
our very best
mountains began to melt into
deep pools
of molten, white hot glass ..
Whereas below,
the oceans boiled themself
merrily away
to absolutely nothing at all ..
and the steam
they exuded served to scare,
scald and scar
everything above the clouds
and all those
heavenly bodies that which,
only moments
ago once used to reside there ..