The Path of Totality

Light travels at speed so
terrifying the brain recoils in
shock from the absence. The
shadow of Earth's moon
casts a 70 mile wide shadow.

Light carries energy
Einstein said energy and
mass are equivalent.
Gravity affects all
light. My star is only visible
when the moon eats the sun.

Glimmer on the edge of Corona
so faint you can observe my body
only when light is skewed, warped,
bent by my physical self. The sun
eclipsed reveals thin vaporous
energy proof of existence beyond
your vision.

the normal sun is 400 x
larger than earth's moon which is
400 x closer than the sun.
Hold up your thumb and see it
fits easily to make your own eclipse.

Still I exist no sun or thumb can
quite rub me out. For 4 minutes
you and I are in totality together.