Vapor Trail

Stratospheric traces of our transitory flight

Trails of condensation held

In narrow paths of white

The sun is turning black

The world is turning gray

All the stars fade from the night

The oceans drain away

Horizon to horizon

Memory written on the wind

Fading away, like an hourglass, grain by grain

Swept away like voices in a hurricane

In a vapor trail

Atmospheric phases make the transitory last

Vaporize the memories that freeze the fading past

Silence all the songbirds

Stilled by the killing frost

Forests burn to ashes

Everything is lost

Washed away like footprints in the rain

In a vapor trail