Retinas burn, as my eyes raise towards the dying star Half devoured sky bleeds red, the d**h of a star begun Billion times five, inner orbits set to solar flame One with the star they die, melt to core, no remains Oceans boil, steam rises, molten cracks reveal the boiling lava, = Rising, in turmoil Lifeless, planet barren, earth's last dying vapors, atmosphere = Ignited, radiation burns away A planet to breath, the earth gave shelter The gift of the curse of life Over evolved mind, consciousness raped After four billion years, earth shaped, molded, contorted man To become a scar, a black page in the planet's history Did he self - destruct, turn inward on himself Or tap the awesome power growing deep Within the recess of his mind Cycle of fire commences, radiation of the sun ejected outward, last = Cry Earth a corpse now lies fallen, life burnt back to carbon Freed from man forever, gone or in flight through the void What will be...