Poem of the Day for National Poetry Month "Solar Flares" by Alyssa Cooper

You know if you stay
you'll never escape;
you know
that it's almost too late,
that the future you never expected is
     racing
towards you,
full force,
building speed;
     a train rushing
     down a darkened tunnel.

But you cant
     turn back;
not now.
You can't turn away
from a light
so bright
that it puts the sun to
     shame.
You'd rather burn up,
lost in that all-consuming
     instant
than live your life
in the dark.