Worlds in Collision

I fell asleep one night and had a dream
about a new comet coming at full steam;
a comet ousted from the vast Oort Cloud.*
I saw it pass beyond a lunar phase,
a comet watched from Earth for many days;
it hit the atmosphere and it was loud.

I saw the tail with fire light the sky,
(air friction and incandescence did apply);
a roaring thunder of one from outer space.
Above Australia with a whoosh and bam,
over Malaysia, also Vietnam,
and in my dream it targeted one place.

Refrain:
(The comet crashed into Mount Everest,
  the top of the world, the summit no less.
  It melted snows and rearranged the peak,
  altering topography, so to speak.
  And when it crashed into Mount Everest,
  Nepal was unnerved as you may have guessed.
  They did their best to rise above the dust,
  the firestorm and supersonic gust.)

The comet I saw in my dream was old;
it came from a place that was icy cold--
a place where even Pluto sees no worth.
Rather than merely loop around the sun,
(its interplanetary transit done,)
the comet found the highest point on Earth.

Above Hawaii soaring like a star,
an icy snowball coming from afar;
a hypersonic comet tracking true.
It ionized the upper atmosphere,
caused northern lights to suddenly appear--
toward the Himalayan peaks it flew.

Refrain:
(The comet targeted Mount Everest,
  adrift for so long, now zooming with zest.
  A rogue from a place where debris can clump,
  now set to smash into Earth’s biggest bump.
  It was a comet for Mount Everest,
  a methane shrouded asteroid obsessed.
  It focused its sights on Nepal, all right,
  intent to energize Earth’s greatest height.)


40 Lines
Writer’s Cramp
May 11, 2014

*The Oort Cloud is a vast spherical region beyond the solar system,
  extending half way to the nearest star, containing trillions of comets and asteroids