starfire

our love,

the sun turned

red giant.

expands

to consume

all in its path.

Mercury and Venus,

lost forever.

as our desire

burns its last bit

of fuel.

collapsing

into a dense

white dwarf,

devoid of fusion.

the memory of us,

a luminescent reminder

of what was.

and they wonder,

at our glow.

the final

evolutionary state

of us all,

even starfire ends.