"The Sky Just Cracked Open and the World Turned a Final Time, Or, This Feels Too Good"

The sun just exploded
But we'll keep dancing anyway
'Cause this feeling's too good to waste.
Heaven is calling for us,
All the angels with their scrubbed wings,
But I'll just grin and bear it
And you'll just grin and bear it.
And we'll go down into the valley
Walking barefoot on the hot sands
And laugh at the scorpions
Who try to sting
And the snakes
Who try to bite
But are too afraid now
To do anything.
You and me and no one else
Will step lightly across a lake bottom
Gone dry in the middle of August,
With the fish suspended in the air
Like flapping stars
As the planet hurtles downward
Into some unknowable abyss.
And the final souls
Are reaching for salvation
But we'll still be holding hands
And taking refuge in a cave
That sends our voices back at us
Colored with the spectrum of human emotion,
Because the two of us have to encompass it all now.
And we'll feel and find and dig our way
To the middle of the earth
And find it's a hollowed out husk
That we'll make our home
As millions of years of history
Crumble around us
And stars wink out
And the universe twists in the middle
With everything collapsing to nothing.
And we'll dance when we're just molecules,
Reduced to atoms,
Crushed into a shiny orb
That holds everything that was, is, and will ever be.
And from us
Existence will be made anew.