Space Time Villanelle

The sun will flare out in its final state
and broil the galaxy with all its brightness
as all the seas of earth evaporate.

Man comes onto the stage a tad too late,
about the time the sun hits midlife crisis
and flares out wild into its final state.

No time to take back Eden - it's too late.
Five billion years at most is all earth's life is.
Too soon its lovely seas evaporate.

So say the experts who foresee our fate
and with their best predictions slice and dice us
as Sol prepares to flare its final state.

It's best, I think, to snuggle and create
and love like mad beneath the waving cypress
before the seas of earth evaporate.

I live in hope of heaven's bliss - but wait -
when we've been there six billion years - oh gracious!
Forced to watch the good sun's flaring fate
and all the seas of earth evaporate!