The Center Star

Throbbing at the center
Solemnly--

Its pulses
Reaching to engulf
Daring souls
Approaching the boundary of
Purpose,

The border of being
And dissipation,
  To be smashed,
  Squashed,
  Squandered
Into a million specs of
Dust
When time and space meet
death,
Caressing, in unity.

Billions of dazzling
Pebbles,
Excited, frenzied and scattered,
    Shining,
    Glowing,
    Glittering

Then
siphoned to be swallowed
Voraciously
Into the heart
From the accretion disk.

The meaning of life and universe
Waning
Irrevocably,

The past
And
The future

The end and the start
Together peacefully
At the
Convergence,

In the realm shadowed from life
By the singularity of
Demise,

Where all the states lie equally
In harmony
Sculpting once again
Vacuum,

To start a newer history
At another time
From the scratch.

-- Fariel Shafee