Under its enormous existence
And pressure of its own mass
Fusing Hydrogen atoms to Helium
While billions of years elapse
Eventually, the core runs out of fuel
Initiating a gravitational collapse
Its shell’s hydrogen reserves fight back
So for some time, the inevitable shall pass
The heat from the burning shell
Grows the star’s peripheral expanse
As it swallows nearby planets
In a stupendous cosmic dance
Red Giant is its new avatar
Its core still sweltering hot
Now, fusing helium into carbon
And some sundry heavier lot
Alas, the helium also ran out
Once again, Gravity’s power holds sway
The star’s inner core succumbs
While the outer layers fly away
The compression shrinks the Red Giant
And it slowly begins to morph
Into a super dense mass of carbon
As it transitions to a White Dwarf
Bigger stars , however don’t like to be dwarfed
They often initiate a runaway nuclear fusion
And in rebellion, they go supernova
With a spectacularly luminous stellar explosion
Thus breaking down the atoms
Into a massive subatomic store
Coalescing to form a Neutron Star
With just neutrons in its core
But as the universe would swear
Gravity often does go a bit too far
Splitting the neutrons into quarks
To sometimes create a Quark Star
The most massive of the stars, though
Are often, naturally a bit too shy
They collapse into Black Holes
And forever disappear from the sky
-Anshuman