The Way it All Ends

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 ..