Solar Max

Up all night in Boulder
they know the calm before the storm is over  
They say it could start any day now
like waiting for sparrows in Spring  
 
On the beach in Mexico
beautiful auroras  
flicker in the dawn sky  
their giant flares advertise  
Cycle 24 the main event  
Northern Lights vacationing  
way down South  
while the sun licks its lips  
 
Coronas burst  
and surface volcanoes  
larger than Earth  
start to stir  
gusting solar winds  
traveling a million miles an hour  
spawning storms in space  
while the sun licks its lips  
 
It's only 400 years  
since records began  
though the sun's age  
is more than four and a half billion  
so we cant be sure  
we wont fry  
when the sun licks its lips
next time  
 
Long ago  
a priest on a pyramid  
gazed far into the future  
carved runes for his visions in stone  
a warning before his people died out  
while the jungles grew back and waited  
until the sun licks its lips
once more