Countinuum

CONTINUUM FIRE Some say the world was made of fire, It burns and freezes as we expire. It consumes and swallows all it takes, Reseeds a tree, and new life makes. Dust to ashes that fill the sky, And block the sun from every eye. The scream of deer and cry of cat, It takes the sail from bird and bat. And even man can't run away, Nor sleep at night for fear of day. That when the flames melt Sky and Earth, And all confusion is like his birth... In soot and silence, hiss and heat, It's how it is when red flames eat. ICE Some say the world will end in ice, a pitch black universe in sacrifice. Earth is swallowed by the sun, from Earth’s horizon, galaxies run. Nebulas lose fuel that star their souls, galaxies are eaten by black holes. Stars blink out with no new fuel, and protons decay by nature’s rule. All in entropy will decay, No time, no space defines the way. No energy nor mass that creates, An empty canvas that hesitates. From ice and cold and lifeless wind, some say creation begins again. Out of nothing what will appear, a single light or cosmic sphere. -Edlynn Nau © February 16, 2019 These were published on Poetry Soup in response to Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice.”. They were posted as two separate poems: “The Hunger” (Fire), © August 3, 2015 and as “Black Ice” (Ice),© October 11, 2018. Here I’m joining them as one poem for “Continuum”, February 16, 2019.