Light Becoming Silence

I leave the furnace of a nameless star
A grain of light with no map or scar
The planets turn like questions in a line
I cross their silence on a thread of time

No hands to hold me, no road beneath
Only the widening dark I breathe

I see the universe unfolding wide
Dust becomes a river, worlds become a tide
Every distant fire is a memory begun
I carry every color until my journey's done

I pass through blue where young stars learn to burn
Through amber clouds where ancient metals turn
A galaxy bends slowly in my view
Its arms are roads of silver, red, and blue

The farther that I travel, the more the past appears
A thousand hidden mornings, a billion vanished years
I am not lost or lonely, I am motion without end
A message moving outward, with no need to return again

I see the universe unfolding wide
Dust becomes a river, worlds become a tide
Every distant fire is a memory begun
I carry every color until my journey's done

When the last horizon closes over me
I leave one final trace of what I used to see
No voice, no vessel, no place to rest
Just light becoming silence in the universe's chest