Aphelion

In the age of innocence
When the universe was small
I reached perihelion
And approached my parent star
To find its light was blinding
And its flares were threatening
To the life on my surface

Bound to the system
By rules others wrote
I could not escape

The body that created me
Now hungered to destroy me

My temperatures elevated
Storms raged for countless millennia
Until finally I was engulfed

In death I dreamed
My grave scattered
With every passing aeon
And my ashes could find peace
Drifting among the nebulae
Hoping they’d reach aphelion