A Sad Short Story From a Star

August 11, 2025, Evo Numy

Image by me.

I let the night sky paint a myriad of distant lights onto my eyeballs.
I stare at a star directly above me.
Its photons tell me a sad story.

There was once something here but now it is no more.
There is only darkness, nothing.

I have travelled long and far.
I’ve existed for billions upon billions of years and have become a part of time itself.
The things I have seen and experienced would overwhelm you.

I come a vast distance to tell you that where the past was, there is only darkness.
There were great things here but they have been given to the void.
Forgotten.

It’s coming for you too.
For all of you.
One day, you will no longer have a past because there will only be nothing.
It’s actually happening right now but you don’t realize it.
You are becoming nothing.
But wait!

You always have been nothing.
There was never anything there.
So sad, isn’t it?