Soon the Sun

Written by HJ Morales

Constantly spinning on space’s finger

At a million miles an hour

But the sand buries my toes

Like a silk sheet on a breezy night.

Seen and unseen it travels

A fiery globe of nuclear energy, fusing atoms

Gifting light and radiation,

Your roots digging into a desert of ash.

When you lay and turn to dust,

Melded into seedless soil,

Baking life you’ll never see

Mixing with Earth’s Carbon lust.

Soon the sun will boil the oceans

Burning all life left

Cratering the dreams past and present

Leaving nothing but salt and ash and sand.