Space Dream

I had this dream the other night that some object in outer space had been reflecting radiation onto certain people: just dissolving them painlessly into light.

It was a brilliant day, and I, an old man, was sitting on the dock looking over the blue, waiting for something to happen.

As my feet started to burn away, I thought 

Yes, this is it. This is the way to die

And by then the rest of me had gone, and in my place there was a little more light that day.