Color of a Raven

Stress encircled her eyes and head.

When any hope was hopeless...

light-years away,

she opened her dresser drawer.

Beneath pharmacy referals

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.