Rehearsal

We are all agog, readying ourselves
for an exciting sneak preview of the 
original Greatest Show on Earth though 
the host is the Universe and we 
but hangers-on. The light of our lives 
will be undergoing a major play 
with an understudy or at least one 
that feels it has gained that status.
Immeasurably influential, its luminously
powerful and violently impressive
birth and subsequent life gave us ours.
Its ultimate death spiral in an agony
of obliteration will of course serve
to hasten ours, swiftly and with a 
grave finality we might never have 
imagined. But wait; this is but a dim
rehearsal, it is a reprieve, merely the 
moon eclipsing the sun, an insignificant
satellite aspiring the expiration of a
titan. We will gather to enjoy our
front-row seat in this splendid display
of nature flexing her creations' capacity
to mount heavenly suspenseful dramas
of timelessly fearful Sturm und Drang.