Star light

Billion years having passed,

wolf-rayet succumbed

to tormenting solar winds,

emitted an agonized howl

of light into black void and darkness:

Bent and pulled, as it left,

by ten million dwarfs,

all white and red, black and brown,

 from galaxy radiate out,

through nebulae vast and uncounted;

Through cold space onward fled

toward that yonder speck,

which grew into Milky Way,

in time-bending hurtle from Bang;

was caught in one great twisted arm,

Swept on through, witnessed all:

worlds ancient and cold:
in ev'ry brief 'ternity,

departed with nary a peep,

gas giants and icy dead terras;

Even now washing over

our little blue marble,

where sit we with hand in hand,

admiring our clear night together,

and sensing some echo of sadness;