In silence, it grows-so bright, so near,
A star on the edge of its final year.
It breathes in light, its pulse turns slow,
A dance it once led, now too heavy to show.
The core collapses, fate unfurled,
Nuclear fission shapes its world.
Progenitor, you fall from grace,
Your heart implodes without a trace.
Supernova, then a neutron star,
Or black hole deep-so cold, so far.
A diffuse nebula could arise
As the energy held inside flies.
Explosions bloom-no turning back,
A burst that shreds the cosmic track.
Through space it flings a shining veil,
A diffuse nebula tells the tale.
Atoms scatter, in the storm,
New life in fragments will be born.
Progenitor, you fall from grace,
Your heart implodes without a trace.
Supernova, then a neutron star,
Or black hole deep-so cold, so far.
A diffuse nebula could arise
As the energy held inside flies.
In chaos, beauty's song begins,
A spark of life within the winds.
From death, creation's endless wheel,
In nebula, new stars reveal.
Progenitor, you fall from grace,
Your heart implodes without a trace.
Supernova, then a neutron star,
Or black hole deep-so cold, so far.
A diffuse nebula could arise
As the energy held inside flies.
And so you fade, your explosion done,
But through the dark, your light will run.
Progenitor, you've gave it all-
For life, for stars, to rise and fall.