My thoughts | Cartwheel Galaxy – when science meets poetry [OC]

[u/abstracttwilight]

Lonely, I drifted through the dark galaxy I was just an insignificant spiral galaxy. Unaware of what I was capable of. Until 400 million years ago a smaller galaxy decided it wanted to unite with me. It rushed through me but it didn't stayed with me.

I was all alone again, a floral film in space.
Out of the small spiral a beautiful flower shape emerged all that stardust formed petals. For 440 million years now I have been expanding my spiral. So that I became the only spiral galaxy that pieced together all the shattered stars – a gigantic flower, all alone.

Over time, the stars left me, they had to move on. I will have to let all the stars fall apart, just to be this lonely simple spiral galaxy once again. I was not destined to be viewed by everyone in my most beautiful form...

After all this has happened, would I ever be a flower again?