This is how a star goes

Let me tell you how a star goes

She is a small star
Yet her gravity draws a multitude
into her hypnotic orbit
To some she fills the sky
To others she is the faraway white pinpoint at night
But to all she is the sun
Tiny but blazing
Her rays far reaching
Her heat felt light years away
And when she goes
She contracts to erupt
She expands
to swallow all those near her entranced
scarring them
yet leaving them better than before she appeared
when she goes
she floods their atmospheres
bursting into thin layers of color
stroking the edges of her solar system
she is the melting purple in the sky at the end of the day
she has conquered the clouds
and signed the horizon
hold onto now
and hold onto her
because she is the warmth in your cup of coffee
faith at its finest
frozen in flight
she is a daylily
she is light
but drags your heart to your feet
and takes away the breath that she can't keep

But let me tell you
When a star goes she's never done
she becomes a supernova
a memory blinding in resplendence
bright enough to upstage the Milky Way
and never to be forgotten.