Different Lives, Different Fates

The heavier my heart, the faster I burn,

Exhausting my fuel, emptying my urn,

I go down in style, an exploding supernova,

After a million years of life, now in a Black Hole coma.

 

I'm average to the core, I'm the humble one,

My flame burns steadily, I'm the master of fusion,

I'll become a red giant- slowly shedding my outer layers,

becoming dwarfed and white, give or take a billion years. 

 

I know my place, I'm the smallest of all,

I can show endurance, let me show some gall,

I can burn so slowly, exceed the age of universe,

Burn red, be dwarfed, but live a 100 billion years.  

 

You may be average, but you are special to me, a white dwarf that will never get sullied or black,

When you are dying I'll lend you my heart's pieces, so go explode to disappear- don't remain back.

The little star

The star's light flickers as it watches the moon,

Do the dwellers of earth see him, he's filled with gloom.

Hunched small in size, he's consumed to core,

-as part of a moonlit sky, isn't he so much more?

Is he just one of many, although it looks as such,

Isn't down there a kid, who loves him much?

and considers him special, reminded of someone afar, 

- what if nobody follows him, is he still a lucky star?

Decked around the moon, or blinded by Sun's ray,

Is his fate to live in shadows, come what may,

Is he a marginal character in this tale from earth,

- will his story end in ignominy, just like his birth?

 

As he shines one last time, and explodes in a blast,

Millions cross their fingers, and make a wish to last.