I wrote this for BCP Prompt - Nightmare, a weekly prompt to get the creative juices flowing.
This nightmare seemed to go on forever.. in slow motion with absolutely no sound. People going about their usual business, not noticing a freaking thing as they burn to a crisp. The sky grows red with a sun that is growing in size, set to swallow the planet, and I am frozen in place watching the chaos build. 😩
There was nothing left to do but embrace that final destination. I was glad to wake up, as that is not an ideal way to go out. 😆
The sky is glowing in a sea of red
People comfy in blissful ignorance
In eight minutes we'll all be dead
Standing still can't escape a trance
Great turmoil as oceans boil
Nightmare real cannot recoil
Stuck in place with no escape
Fires rape shifting landscape
An absence of sound is alarming
Our earth is encased in the flame
The red giant has come to reclaim
Tortured souls engulfed in burning
Waiting for an end to this story
I am trapped in a blaze of glory
Our star has turned predatory
Carnage is quite the allegory
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