5, 500 light years From Earth Milky Way Galactic hearth Where stars surcease And resurrect On the nebula bay Cosmic ocean craters In vast array Created by Immense radiation eruption Causing Supernova explosion HII NGC 6357 HII NGC 6357 Stripped of electrons From hydrogen atoms In Cosmic Cataclysm Ionized hydrogen clouds In the constellation Scorpius A grandeur display