Grandfather Star
Burning balls of gas that water could only fuel
Create matter for the universe
Explosions that fuse instead of part
Our everything came from here
In our part of space there was a star
It lived and died
In the throes of its death it gave us matter
We have a new star now
One that holds everything we know in its gravitational hug
We live on a ball of dirt made from a stars explosion
We were made from this dirt
Though our life may feel regular or unspectacular
Through the course of the history of our star and our planet
We were formed over eons from the ashes of a burned out star
We are related to our planet and our grandfather of burning matter
From here we live and see
That the universe is bigger than we know
But we will always be related to our planet
And we will always have a grandfather for a star