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Heat Death MAG

February 8, 2023
By I_talk_way_too_much BRONZE, Landenberg, Pennsylvania
I_talk_way_too_much BRONZE, Landenberg, Pennsylvania
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There’s a woman, sitting by a cliff
She stares to the sky covered in orange and yellow
as things crumble apart at her feet- a breaking and
shattering of all the world’s songs.

It’s the last moment.
The final breath and song
of the universe.
Nothing else would come
in the aftermath
of this.
Nothing we can predict.

Scientists talk about what will happen
after we’re long gone.

They tell us about how
the world will one day disappear
into the sun.

But the immortal woman stares on.

It’s the end of the world,
but there’s no one to blame.

A universe in shambles,
a crumbling landscape.
There’s nothing to be done.

The immortal woman stares on.

A final goodbye.


The author's comments:

We were analyzing poetry in class, specifically Mary Oliver's "The Shark", at least for my group at least. The conclusion my group and I came to was that it was about the inevitability of death. But then it got me thinking. What about someone who could never die watching the end of the universe? And that's where this piece came from. Nobody really knows what the end of the universe will feel and look like, so I tried to make it beautiful and sad at the same time. This isn't a lighthearted poem, but it can be seen as beauty in goodbyes.


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