Every second brings the stars closer at last.
Planets spinning on their shaky axes
Bid me farewell as my little pod flies past,
And the gravitational hold on me relaxes.

In the deepest reaches of space and time,
Portals die and dimensions are lost for ever.
Ten million bodies writhe as they shine
Their secrets burning in their combusting hearts

And trust orbits mine at the speed of light,
Vacuum tearing at its fragile frame
Critical velocity cracked its spindly shell
Any moment could be the last

While old familiar faces crowd the expanse
Their voices in a beautiful galactic dissonance

And is it not quite sad that some stars should shine brighter than you,
Or that your death should spawn a darkness so menacing?

Heavy hands wrought the heavens
I watch the little comets burn,
And within the ever expanding universe I silently wait my turn

Stellar voices sing an ode
To the graceful endless night,
And true to the promise of an ancient soul I exit in implosive light

And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom.