by Phyllis Frakt
The distant death throes of a star—
entire worlds gassed, doomed,
consumed in its stellar belly.
They say our sun will do the same
and swallow the Earth in the “deep future”
five billion years from now.
While we wait, let’s celebrate spring,
a season in love with the sun,
carefree and heedless of remote catastrophe.
But humans bring peril five billion years early
Our planet gobbled up, not from afar,
but from us, under our benevolent star.
Phyllis Frakt began writing poems in 2021. Her previous poems in The New Verse News are "Teach to the Test" and "Caught in Between." She lives in New Jersey.
