Through obsidian clouds

A serpent of light strikes -

Nature holds its breath

Before the cosmic split

One heartbeat of silence

Then - CRACK!

The sky shatters

Like black glass breaking

A jagged spear of white

Carves reality in two

Hills splinter, fields fracture

Under its electric blade

The rift writes ancient runes

Across heaven's dark canvas

Each stroke burning bright

Then fading to memory

When thunder finally speaks

It's just an echo

Of that first profound break

When light divorced darkness

The storm passes

But the retinas remember

That moment when day

Invaded night