Seven Deadly Suns

Puddled on my dream’s glass lens

Pools of mystic condensate

Seven suns of witness when 

Time will cease in mankind’s fate:

Sunlight waned to dusk in day

White, waxing moon, shadows’ eclipse

Darkness covered Earth with gray

For every man grew envious

Crowned atop a thrown of azure

Sun’s kingdom spread endlessly 

Cloudless, skies shared not his treasure

For every man was ruled by greed

Lapis lakes of crimson red  

Molten lava cracked Earth’s crust 

Tidal waves, impassioned, bled  

For every man burned in his lust

Eve’ eclipsed in Sun’s embrace 

Burning, boiled the white-hot bath 

Fire covered moonlight’s face 

For every man seethed in his wrath  

Sun grew great; its zenith reached 

As moonlight humbled ocean tides 

Eye’s wide shut; Sun’s hubris peaked

For every man was blind to pride 

Falling on Horizon’s shore 

Moved by nothing, Dawn lay lost

Sun was gone forevermore

For every man did not as sloths 

Onyx seas lacked ocean’s blue

Caught in nets of cumulus 

East to west, no sun in view

For every man drowned, glutinous

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photo credit: Mike Woodwart