space debris swept up in an invisible tide toward the bleak shape of her cavern

caught in her luminous halo of harnessed starlight. once upon many light

years ago, her first form was of a massive star. her countenance was

a crystal blue outshining every star in the galaxy. her heat

was incalculable. her heart never tired. an endless warriors

shield against the weight of gravity. a shifting swirl

of pressure in her chamber. a quickening pulse.

darkening blemishes across the purity of her brilliant

blue spread across her body. saturating her flame

in the deepest red. her heat diminished and

with it the mighty roar of her waves.

unable to soothe the chaos.

her heart became an iron

shell. growing weaker

with each beat.

exhausting her hydrogen fuel.

she reached out with dying embers.

every breath an agonizing ache.

the fierce hold of gravity upon her. with her last breath

her final ounce of fuel depleted she broke. scattering stardust across the galaxy

outshining one last time in her moment of death. shimmering phantom winds

burnt planets into crumbles. pushing stars into other stars.

her incandescence traveling at the speed of light.

her once glorious shine. all that remained

a vulnerable core. unable to cope

she started to sink.

curving the fabric

of space with

her grief.

deeper and

deeper

into

obscurity

collapsing

further

inward.

calling

to space

begging

it to take

her back

to the

beginning

when

every-

thing

was a

tiny

wand-

erer

on the

thres-

hold

of

for-

ever.