Endings

Early 2004

With wild eyes to watch the winding seas
Go down into the bright darkness
As the stars collapse, exploding red hot fury
Into quiet mist as eternity stops
And infinity wheels into a pinhead, churning,
I should not be worthy.

With troubled ears to hear the sky breaking,
Screaming as the tumbling world is spent
In the cold void as the sun dissolves
Into the shadows of the galaxy shivering
Dark as infinity stretches to nothing
I should dread utterly.

With quiet mind to be the fading sunlight
Of myself upon myself and untold mastery
Drawing out all things once from the driving,
Furious, fragile flesh that knew the earth
And wind as I sink into potent oblivion
I should be content.