Speeding Away Angrily Poem by Margaret Alice

Hot young stars shining in blue
make love to nebulae in order to
produce new baby stars from
dust and gas

Emission nebulae shine because
they emit light when stimulated by
the loving radiation received from
those hot young stars

Reflection nebulae shine because
they reflect the light from loving
stars around and in them - but
dark nebulae

Appear only in silhouette because
they block out light from radiant stars
and bright nebulae – they are suffering
from depression and loneliness

Dying stars have an effect on the nebulae
who loved and protected them: either
drifting away quietly from the slowly
dying love in the star’s core - or

Speeding away angrily after a violent
supernova explosion of wrath – so
please don’t explode and send me
speeding away like those nebulae!