Lifetimes away a star pops
Dante’s nightmare made manifest,
As worlds burn to dust
Pregnant clouds seeded with
Heavy elements draw new life
From gravity’s embrace, falling
Toward stellar nursery’s rebirth
Lavoisier tells us
Nothing is ever destroyed
Even in a star’s death furnace
Mass to energy, energy to mass
In an endless life giving decay
Today’s dust is tomorrow’s Earth
Waiting for Sol to deliver a similar fate
We’ll be dead before the nova’s light reaches us
Seven minutes for goodbyes
But even in those last moments
As space boils around us
Would it mean anything if we weren’t there to see it?
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