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Here I sit, alone,
waiting for someone to show.
Wanting to be active, but
no particular place to go.

So, once again I
head down below
and thought of you,
but had no particular place to go.

She flew, as an Angel,
into the Sun.
I knew at that moment,
she was the one.

Long will I remember,
never to forget,
the moment in time,
when we first met.

Fly away,
flee,
away from the light,
stay here with me.

I can no longer,
ask of you,
what to be,
or what to do.

I miss you,
your beautiful smile,
but no longer will,
see. Not for a while.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Yesterday, the Moon was New. But on January 9, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to the sight of an old Moon, low in the east as the sky grew bright before dawn. Above the city of Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany, this simple snapshot found the waning Moon's sunlit crescent just before sunrise. But also never wandering far from the Sun in Earth's sky, inner planets Venus and Mercury shared the cold morning skyview. In the foreground are the historic city's tower and castle with ruins from the 10th century.

Photo by Michael Luy

I scream for tomorrow,
which may never come,
as life is a tragedy and
we could succumb.

To lose a life,
so precious to me,
from neglect
must never be.

Yet here I sit
amongst those who lied,
not understanding,
if she chose and died.

I tired when I heard,
"Who are you?"
Then I realize,
she doesn't know, can't undo.

How I wish I could
hear those words again.
It would help me
to reduce the pain.

My eyes are moist,
as my nose runs loose,
how can I move on
from here? Can I choose?

Winds, a blast,
rattling against
a windowpane,
rain trickles,

over sash
and sill.
We should wait,
never will.

The rain splattered
the river danced,
as rain fell it was
Nature's romance.

Air to rain,
water to soil,
makes me happy
and my blood to boil.

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Named for a forgotten constellation, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower puts on an annual show for planet Earth's northern hemisphere skygazers. The shower's radiant on the sky lies within the old, astronomically obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis. That location is not far from the Big Dipper asterism, known to some as the Plough, at the boundaries of the modern constellations Bootes and Draco. The Big Dipper "handle" stars are near the upper right corner in this frame, with the meteor shower radiant just below. North star Polaris is toward the top left. Pointing back toward the radiant, Quadrantid meteors streak through the night in this skyscape from Jangsu, South Korea. The composite image was recorded in the hours around the shower's peak on January 4, 2024. A likely source of the dust stream that produces Quadrantid meteors was identified in 2003 as an asteroid.

Photo by 염범석 Yeom Beom-seok