White Flash

Gone, gone the days We'd sit outside and watch the weathervane Gone the smell of summer rain Gone the midnight drives and passing trains Gone, gone the nights When we would lay and dream of another life A golden child, a scarlet wife Would turn to dust, the same, when the end arrived We were scared of the days to come We could only hope our fear would make us numb But when you smiled, did it feel so wrong? Beneath the blown out husk of an atom bomb It won't be quite so bad when it finally comes It's just a bright, white flash and then it's gone Before the lights go out for good Before the flash consumes us whole A crack on the horizon grows And opens up its blinding jaws Before the lights go out for good Before the flash consumes us whole Before we boil in its embrace I gaze across your freckled face And your sweat beads in every pore As our shadows flee across the floor And fire fills your frightened eyes As the groaning glow intensifies And your features shine in sharp relief Your soul exposed in a moment brief Your fears and your hopes and your memories The one I was always meant to see And only darkness evermore --- White Flash - David Wirsig