Inspiried by a Typo

A student in Astronomy accidentally typed the "loves of stars" instead of the "lives of stars".  I thought to myself, Hmmmm....

So here is my response:

We met at first, dispersed and cold

With gravity's love, our fates foretold

We drew together tight and bold

Fusing together, two became one

For 10 billion years, we were the Sun

But eventually our love was undone

We separate: one grew bigger, redder, and colder

Into itself the rest contracted and started to smolder

Alpha alpha alpha, the core grew older and older

Dwarf-like and tiny, merely a carbon sack

I spin and recall when we began to contract

As memories of love fade, white into black