Life's End

An eye emerges like a thought

A slither of an idea

That bubbles into something more

A reddish orange hugging a

Yellow than yellower than the yellowest yellow

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There are no colors that have ever shined brighter

No heat that sizzles louder

Rippling and swimming through oxygen

Or carbon dioxide

I don't know

I'm not a scientist

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It is a wanderer

An expansive beast

All encompassing

Swallowing Earth

Gobbling purgatory

Clamoring at clouds

Leaping to the east

Hurdling over the west

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Fed by the arid

A soulmate of calamity

Barbarity's playmate

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What we once boasted

Is falling to ash

All things cowering and melting

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We are witnessing life's end

Like children transfixed on a campfire

Unaware that the entire forest is ablaze