Before Darkness

 

A blinding flash of light.

 

So hot it fried

our skin, roasted our muscles,

melded our bones to the furniture.

Disintegrated houses to piles of sand.

Boiled oceans, making fish chowder.

 

Soup, soup everywhere…but not an animal to eat it.

 

Dimmed and cooled,

steam rose, then hardened.

So cold it covered

the barren land with ice,

froze the air, making snow slushies

 

Daiquiris, daiquiris everywhere…but nobody here for Happy Hour.

 

Just a big ball of ice

when the darkness came.