Color of a Raven

Stress encircled her eyes and head.

~

When any hope was hopeless

and light-years away,

she opened her dresser drawer.

~

Beneath pharmacy referrals

and credit card bills,

its black metal trigger resembled

the color of a raven.

~

At the speed of light

and with enough energy

to shoot across the expanse of space,

it made her weightless�"

a heavenly body.

~

Her universe transformed

as skull fragments exploded like stardust

escaping a black hole.