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When I write down these words
on paper, using a pen,
are they becoming more absurd
or do I still continue to pretend,
I am a writer who
has now lost his way.
Please help me Lord,
for my mind has gone astray.

I reach out for you,
but you've gone away.
Your body is here,
the mind didn't stay.
I love you so
and will always pray,
please stay with me
until the end of our day.

Thank you, dear Lord
for letting me stay
on this good Earth
for one more day.

Come see me now.
Come see me play.
Do it now.
Do it today,
For very soon,
It's gone away,
Never again,
Not even today.
The loss of time,
Has gone away,
No more watching,
Your Children play.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Surprisingly reminiscent of The Great Nebula in Orion, The Great Turkey Nebula spans this creative field of view. Of course if it were the Orion Nebula it would be our closest large stellar nursery, found at the edge of a large molecular cloud a mere 1,500 light-years away. Also known as M42, the Orion Nebula is visible to the eye as the middle "star" in the sword of Orion the Hunter, a constellation now rising in planet Earth's evening skies. Stellar winds from clusters of newborn stars scattered throughout the Orion Nebula sculpt its ridges and cavities seen in familiar in telescopic images. Much larger than any bird you might be cooking, this Great Turkey Nebula was imagined to be similar in size to the Orion Nebula, about 13 light-years across. Stay safe and well.

Photo by Eric Coles

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I see once again,
the far away look,
in your brown eyes,
when you try hard
to think and realize,
you know not of
objects, which you see,
as a puzzled expression,
comes rushing at thee.
What can I do?
What can I say,
telling you, your safe
and I won't go away.

I am going to go back
and crawl in my bed,
for my head is pounding,
like the drum of the dead.
My eyes are so weary,
a color of light red.
I shouldn't have been drinking
and then someone said,
"Last round"

I believe I have been here before,
but who in the World is Lenore?
Did I read a book of lore?
It was Poe's Raven saying "Nevermore."

The sound of an early evening breeze,
pushing and pulling branches and leaves.
Is an eerie sound; it will not appease
until the rattle of tree limbs are at ease.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

How far can you see? The Andromeda Galaxy at 2.5 million light years away is the most distant object easily seen with your unaided eye. Most other apparent denizens of the night sky -- stars, clusters, and nebulae -- typically range from a few hundred to a few thousand light-years away and lie well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. Given its distance, light from Andromeda is likely also the oldest light that you can see. Also known as M31, the Andromeda Galaxy dominates the center of the featured zoomed image, taken from the dunes of Bahía Creek, Patagonia, in southern Argentina. The image is a combination of 45 background images with one foreground image -- all taken with the same camera and from the same location within 90 minutes. M110, a satellite galaxy of Andromenda is visible just below and to the left of M31's core. As cool as it may be to see this neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way with your own eyes, long duration camera exposures can pick up many faint and breathtaking details. Recent data indicates that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide and combine with the similarly-sized Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years.

Photo by Gerardo Ferrarino