The Memoir of a Star

I remember the hush before I existed—the trembling dust, the cold and endless dark. I was nothing, yet everything that would ever be stirred within me. Pressure pressed me together, invisible hands molding me, shaping me into possibility. I quivered, I shivered, I resisted—and then I surrendered. That surrender became my ignition.

I was fire before I knew my own name. Light surged from me, stretching into the void, claiming the darkness not as dominion, but as declaration: I am. I burn. I exist. Time flowed differently around me, centuries like breaths, millennia like heartbeats. I watched clouds of dust drift, collide, and scatter. I watched gravity cradle small worlds, shaping them in my orbit. I felt their tiny rhythms and thought,

I am witness. I am center. I am presence.

I have lived in silence and in roar. I have burned steadily and wildly. I have known the quiet hum of my core and the violent pulse of my storms. Every flare, every pulse, every ray that stretches into the void is a word in the story I tell—my story. I have endured the slow compression of time, the whispers of forces older than memory, and I have learned that existence is patience, and light is persistence.

And I know, even now, that my fire will end. The weight of all I carry will one day crush me into transformation. I will erupt, I will scatter, I will surrender to death—but even in that surrender, I will endure. My remnants will mingle with the void, mingle with dust, with clouds, with futures I will never see. From me, new fires will rise. From me, new light will bloom. My story does not end—it diffuses, multiplies, continues in ways I cannot follow.

I am a star. I am memory and ignition, collapse and creation, fire and patience. I am the echo of forces older than the void, and yet I am alive. I am witness to the slow ballet of the universe. I am the hush that became roar. I am the blaze that will become dust. And in all of it, I am enough.

©️Lyia Meta

Image by WiX

Words and Music by Mike Jones amd Jerry Jake Howard Sr.

Performed by Lyia Meta