Sunset of Armageddon

I shinned through the

      lush gardens of scientific beauty

scattered pass the

      rolling rivers of conjured pasts

reflected upon the

      mountaintops of poetic words

Just to watch the

beads of refracted lavender light

scatter like liquid glass

upon your sunburnt skin

(San Francisco!)

undertoned with an omnipresent backdrop

      of auburn urban sunsets

While the approaching

armies of fear

with swords at the ready,

sanguine light dancing on the tip of the blades;

Blood on tooth, in nail;

The first whiff of sulfur and a sparked fuse;

all weigh heavy on the mind,

we still held hands

and smiled till the end of days.