Dead Earth Sunrise

Seconds before the dawn,
the cool of the night
is still a simmering furnace.

The crest of the sun,
a red colossus of violent rays,
eliminating anything
with the will to survive.

The trees, the savannahs,
the tundra, the ice fields,
they all submitted to the genesis
of a global carbonised desert.
Lava seas destroyed what was once
a green a blue orb
on a vibrant solar chain.

The sun expands to engulf the sky,
the heat stirring the flames
as it swallows the atmosphere,
the last morning of a silent earth.