Hades

Come take a journey to my future, 
it’s quite a long way off
The sun has grown into a red giant 
earths surface is utterly scorched 
Oceans have evaporated into space,
our planet has turned to dust
The moon is no longer in orbit,
I wander aimless on a white hot crust

Abandoned billions of years ago,
humanity fled to colonies on mars 
When the terraforming went wrong,
they continued out towards the stars
I’ve been resurrected into this nightmare 
made to witness my burning shame,
I’m able to breathe molten toxins,
but the price is eternal pain

Oh God I wish I’d believed you, 
for I’ve inherited this awful hell
Left thirsting in vain forever, 
on an infernos simmering shell
To think I seen this day coming 
yet buried my head in the sand 
Fiery embers run through each vein
the magma pours from my hands

Desperate to see one last image,
I tear an eyeball from my head 
Pointing it back towards a face,
horror reflects the life I’ve led
And as the sun grows stronger, 
I seek refuge inside earths core
Walls of plasma close all around me,
sealed in to burn forevermore 

By
David Kavanagh

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Sotto Poet

Date: 7/11/2021 6:24:00 AM

You've produced some fantastic images here, David. Although I think your symbolism represents the future rather than anything that the ordinary public would recognize, This writing is well crafted. Your sequence will very certainly serve as proof of our long-term interconnectedness, with images such as the sun gradually growing to a crimson behemoth, devouring the earth and the moon.

David Kavanagh
Date: 7/11/2021 6:44:00 AM

Thank you Lasaad, there is a lot of factual evidence to our future earths demise inside the bloating sun, The analogy I use is one of hell, trying to picture myself standing condemned, to watch the spectacle, for my agnostic beliefs, cheers David

Jenna Logan

Date: 7/11/2021 5:08:00 AM

This one is frighteningly dark, David. Nightmarish, indeed.

David Kavanagh
Date: 7/11/2021 5:15:00 AM

It’s pretty bleak no doubt, Jenna probably designed as a warning to my future self, intermingled with imagery of the inexorable expansion of the sun into a red giant engulfing the earth, lucky not for another 5 billion years, cheers David