The Way it All Ends

It all seemed to happen
just like that ..
Before the eye could blink
and the brain
could assimilate or reason ..
It wasn’t even
a blur but rather a smudge
uncontained
within such a blinding light
and then seared,
unforgiving onto all available
retinas ..
Indeed, no one even heard it
coming either
and fortunately none of them
are thought
to have felt a single thing ..
Which is,
of course, insane under the
circumstances
but maybe, a blessing also
and now
more than likely unprovable ..
Without
a shadow of doubt though
all our best
mountains began to melt
into pools
of molten white hot glass ..
Whereas below,
the oceans boiled themself
away to
absolutely nothing
and the steam they exuded
served to scare,
scald and scar everything
above the clouds
and those heavenly bodies
that which
once used to reside there ..