Forever Stardust: A Poem by Aidan Bernstein-Lundy

Stardust.

Where we come from and where we return to.

I’ll miss you when I’m gone.

When my atoms scatter across the universe, I will find you.

When my bones are nothing but dust and soil, I will find you.

When memory has faded and there’s no one left to grieve us, I will find you.

There is peace in the immortality of death.

The matter that makes me, and you, and everyone we’ve ever loved - it will never be destroyed.

Whenever you see a monarch butterfly land gracefully on a milkweed flower, know that it is us.

Whenever you see delicate vines wrapped tightly around an old stone cottage, know that it is us too.

Whenever you see the moon and sun entwined in their celestial dance we call an eclipse, know that it is us as well.

If there is an act of love in the universe, 

No matter how small or how large, 

Know that some part of us lives on in it

Together.