Reentry – the friction so great,
I am super-heated,
lit like a trillion suns.

I incinerate so quickly,
the event precedes itself in time.

The pain of total evaporation
cannot be explained;

regrettably, there is no way
to sustain the experience,
endure its full magnitude.

Not of this multiverse,
I stretch eternal, orders of magnitude larger,

while stranded stars bead
about the hips of the Mother.

© Carlos Chagall, 2013