I saw a sun explode,

obliterate in the night sky

and whilst nobody

else saw it at that moment,

I knew that worlds would end.

 

Somewhere deep I felt

the hundreds of thousands

of possible deaths,

across millions of light years

and I trembled at the fragility

of a single life taken

at dawn

just within the blink

of a savage’s eye,

murder by celestial means; death

decreed by sunlight fading thousands

of years ago.

 

I see a distant sun explode

and I sense the Earth below me

rumble and tear itself apart

from within,

piece by rocky piece

magma stirring

and I know nobody will hear this

planet scream

in the end .

 

Ian D. Hall