Terraforming Earth’s Demise

Think dual extinction
Earth to dust
Earth’s inhabitants vaporized

Might there be
In both cases
That kind of planetary migration
Where all species
And Earth’s quintessence
Find domicile bliss?

To dream
To conjure
To foresee

That might be
All that’s left

To close one’s eyes
Hear not any skyward thunder
Or Whip-poor-will mating
Smell not Spring’s conifer awakening
Or Gardenias’ beckoning
Touch not a sandy beach
Or morning dew upon a grassy field
Such becomes one’s quiet desperation
Or earth’s final gasp

Might such a transformation
Of atmosphere
Temperature
Surface
Personality
Breath
Become but imagination’s province?


Or

Could life as we know it
Awaken
Seek reasoning
Beyond the facade of success
The idle worship of status quo

Expose the sentient gift
Risk withdrawal from
Prescient supernatural promises
Become one with cosmic aggregation
Denounce falsehood’s lure?

For…

Such are the volitional observations
Of denial’s spirit
The “what ifs” that
Bubble
Churn
Purge canards
Fling such thoughts
Into gaseous reconstruct
Allowing a universe
Its perpetual modulation
Its molding of non-existence
Into Time’s reality

Such is the heart
Of actuality
Knowing there is no end
Only change
And…

Awakened consciousness