Brief Stars
Hanging there in space
Held by gravity, under Newton’s spell
The stars waltz
Many sizes, many colours
Powered by nuclear fire
Moving in their eternal dance
Some stand out
Larger than the rest
Consuming their fuel with reckless abandon
The brief stars make their appearance
Here for mere moments
Instants on the cosmic scale
They quickly burn out and die
Deaths of unparalleled force and might
For seconds outshining whole galaxies
All their brothers and sisters
The ashes, blown to the stellar winds
Through their sacrifice enriching the cosmos
Adding the building blocks for you, us
Brief stars burn brightly
But in their time
Through their death
New worlds come to being