stardust

stardust

I am not afraid 

of death, 

because I know 

one day 

in the faraway future

when these words 

and their writer 

are left to rust, 

when civilization itself 

is ground into the dirt,

I will be reunited 

with my lost cousins, 

the novae and nebulae,

the moons and the asteroids,

for what are we,

 all of us earthlings, 

but children of stardust?