In the falling darkness we reached for the stars. Our finger tips brushed the tail of a 
shooting star and we found ourselves drifting through the ether.

      With solar winds blowing our hair, we lay motionless. The vast emptiness of space was all 
that cradled our young forms.

      As we are held in the tender embrace of the cosmos, the universe continued to be. Ever 
expanding, ever changing.

      Endlessly floating in the nothingness between stars, we watched as atoms danced and 
combined. We marveled as more came to join the strange spinning waltz.

      Hours passed as we watched, and still more atoms came to join in the dance. The dancing 
began to take on a light all its own. The once dim light began to grow brighter with each passing 
moment. It finally became so bright that we had to shield our eyes from its radiance.

      Over the shadow cast by our hands we could see waves of blue flowing out away from 
the newly born star’s surface. 

      Days passed and the star’s size grew larger than smaller as it burned through its fuel. The 
majestic blue star consumed more and more of its hydrogen. With each passing moment the 
unknown star grew closer to oblivion.

      Quickly the star blossomed. It grew larger and larger until, in the blink of an eye, the star 
was gone.

      As we lay nestled in the nothingness of the universe we are left to ponder the 
impermanence of life.