Dying Star

Sometimes I feel
Like a dying star
Thousands of millenniums away
From my own center
Like a banished galaxy
Cast adrift
Amidst a sea of twinkling lights
Brilliant yet cold
A dying star
Collapsing under the weight
Of inner gravity
And just as it feels
As if I've come
To the end of all hope
This dying star
Is reborn again
And out of my own passion
Baptized
By an inner fire
Like a phoenix
Given new life
From an exorcism
That begins within

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