In the forest, the air falls silent

Life slows to a still

Breath knocked from the universe

As it watches you rest, your cadences slowing.

Your heart sits beside you

The new moon in your dying constellation

Wishing her Earth would stay

Weeping as the light grows brighter.

The light! A beautiful sight

Coveted after years of war

Revisiting the past to end one fight

Just to lose to its reincarnation.

Its events flash by like a collection of old photographs

Of finding your place in the galaxy

Of being burned, but burning brighter

Drawing asterisms to connect the stars from your past.

Weathered by years of wear

Helpless to stop the death of your North Star

Your body betrays you

As your skeleton poisons you from the inside

Fate’s twisted promise

An unavoidable sentence

Yet gaining your moon, the ultimate sacrifice.

Your moon weeps as you approach the light

The feel of her hand waning, 

The universe watching with bated breath

No longer afraid the memories would slip through your fingers, of

            Escaping, ever so elusive

                      Falling, like grains of sand

                               Dissipating, forever stolen with the wind.

Yet God is kind

And the wind does not come as a tempest

But as a gentle breeze

Ruffling the photographs of fond times

The final reminiscence before the end.

When you embrace the light, all falls silent

The world withers with your passing

Its anchor ripped from the ground

As you lie with your heart in your hand.