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Light streamed across the sky
As the second sun rose to meet its brother,
Orange grass rustled in the wind, bright as though ablaze
Rivalled only by the silver trees
That stood boldly, like proud gaurdians, around it;
The city
A bubble of shining glass encasing it
The useless protective cocoon, it would fail its purpose soon
But I was not to know
How could those spires, so beautiful,
Stain glass windows twinkling like rainbow stars,
Stand silently
Staring into the eyes of destruction?
Did they know?
Those inside, the ones who were relying on me
To save them, did they fortell their fate,
Like I couldn't ever have done?
I was meant to stop it all,
And I kept my word,
It stopped
The twin suns were sinking
Their hold on the world relinquished
Giving in to the night
The eternal night that was to come;
The beauty of the place was captured in my mind;
Forever that single glance shall haunt me;
I could not pull my eyes from the view
The place I'd left so long ago,
The place from which I'd ran and ran,
And then
In that single glance
There was light
Light that showed the way to darkness
And though it is impossible
I can still hear the sound of it
The sound that never reached me through the vacuum of space
The screams that were cut off
The million final heartbeats that echo in my mind;
I kept my eyes on it for one second too long
Images burned into my mind
Branding me
I destroyed the sunrises and sunsets that would have been
The blazing orange grass
The shimmering silver trees
The distant mountains
The hopes and the dreams
But worst of all, the people he'd left behind
I stand alone now
No one sees me
Because no one is there
They have gone
And, in the back of my mind
I wish for one impossible thing:
Home.