Sharon Chmielarz*
SOMEDAY THE SUN WILL DIE
If it’s true, my god!
125 quadzillion suns.
(Birth control, anyone?)
(Or: how big is the Mother?)
I’ll never
comprehend, I’m back
to Sunday School times
when I couldn’t conceive
where heaven was.
Beer anyone? Forget the day
Earth will become
its own sooty gravestone.
Lord! 125 gazillion deaths.
Isn’t it enough, after one
human loss, to roll out of
bed on a January morning
and face the sun? I don’t look
Egyptian, but I think Re.
I think High Noon. I think
worship the hearth’s fire.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
*Sharon Chmielarz lives and writes in the Twin Cities. Born in winter on the Plains, she remains in awe of first snow.
(c)2010 Sharon Chmielarz
Here are a couple of facts to boggle the mind.
There are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy (that's 100,000,000,000).
And there are an estimated 125 billion galaxies in the universe (125,000,000,000).
That means there are 125,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible suns out there.
—Tim Nolan