Such Is Life Poem by Deluke Muwanigwa

Such Is Life

It is the year five billion and twenty one
The last living thing on earth left two billion years ago
The earth a barren desolate extremely hot red planet
And yet the galaxies are as peaceful as the other side
The other side where we have never been,
but we assume to have been and seen.

The sun is on its last quadrillion cubic metres of hydrogen
Nature abhorring a vacuum has started fusing helium to replace hydrogen, but there is a catch.
Helium is a poor substitute for hydrogen
Instead of fusing back to hydrogen for the sun's cosmic rebirth
It converts to carbon and oxygen
The same misfits who caused many planets to overheat and lose life.

What to do?
There is nothing to try to do
Helium it is.
Helium converting to carbon and oxygen at the last breath of hydrogen,
The sun immediately blotting
Expanding a million times its present size and annihilating mercury and mars.
Earth is spared but scarred
It's rotational speed increasing to make up for the greater gravitational forces. A day lasting minutes and a year in less than a month.

I am watching in amusement from thousands of light years away from my cryogenic Nth iteration,
Wondering when this natural sequence will come home to me.
The solar system a tiny ripple in an endless cosmos. From stardust to stardust. Such is life.

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