Kerosene Sun

-Kerosene Sun-
by
Keaton Foster



Kerosene sun
Burning bright
Colorless life
Distortion brings
It into present view
Furious red it fools
Its real color unknown
An educated guess as best
Made by humans
With something to prove
How could they ever know
Distance denies us truth
Omnipotent in its power
Holding everything
Together at the seams
All time, all space
Is bound by the causality
Of its unbridled strength
We can feel it’s embrace
A side-effect of its ways
It’s not there for us
We are here because of it
It feeds our lives
And burdens our souls
Promising us certainty
Each new day that it breaks
The back of the distant horizon
Have you ever
Wondered why
Have you ever dared
Have you ever cared
It gives us what we need
Through the power of light
Furiously burning away
All darkness replaced
Without it we would die
Frozen in place
Shattered in every way
The end of our case
It is more God then most
The ancients use to pray to it
Offering everything
For another day of something
Those present must obey it
Must stand in awe of it
Slowly it floods the earth
With toxic rays of excess
The day it comes to an end
We will have already been dead
For eight minutes and twenty seconds
So the next time you can
Look up into the perilous blue
Far beyond all wisdom and truth
Out into the depths of space
An unspecified amount of time away
There you will see our certain doom…


Kerosene Sun
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2012.