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Dear God, the Almighty, in heaven above,
Please help me understand the meaning of love.
Why the attraction, between woman and man.
Please dear Lord, help me now understand.
Enjoying being with someone, is not bad,
When away from them I feel quite sad.
It isn't romantic and it shouldn't be,
For it is in the attraction of physicality.
Is it because I hunger for words,
To share with others, sounds so absurd?
In any event, I must certainly see,
What love is, it will always be.

Always a good reason,
a time when to pause,
to be alone with yourself
and there, just because.
Don't fret the small things,
enjoy your time, with applause.

Give me a topic.
Say the word to me
and I'll write out for you
a small, little personal ditty.

It is easy to avoid
the stress of today,
if I keep writing,
not letting thoughts stray.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Why is this galaxy so thin? Many disk galaxies are just as thin as NGC 5866, pictured here, but are not seen edge-on from our vantage point. One galaxy that is situated edge-on is our own Milky Way Galaxy. Classified as a lenticular galaxy, NGC 5866 has numerous and complex dust lanes appearing dark and red, while many of the bright stars in the disk give it a more blue underlying hue. The blue disk of young stars can be seen extending past the dust in the extremely thin galactic plane, while the bulge in the disk center appears tinged more orange from the older and redder stars that likely exist there. Although similar in mass to our Milky Way Galaxy, light takes about 60,000 years to cross NGC 5866, about 30 percent less than light takes to cross our own Galaxy. In general, many disk galaxies are very thin because the gas that formed them collided with itself as it rotated about the gravitational center. Galaxy NGC 5866 lies about 44 million light years distant toward the constellation of the Dragon (Draco). Almost Hyperspace: Random APOD Generator

When the Rose has lost its bloom.
When the wind has lost its sigh,
It will be time to leave the room;
It will be time to say goodbye.

I think of friends, day and night.
The thoughts bring me much delight.
I was once a shy, bashful child.
Now I miss the social contact style.
No one should be locked away,
Not for months; not even a day.

How many words
are stuck in my head?
Are they words of joy
or words of dread?
I am uncertain, so
many words are to be said.

Is it now Sedition or Treason?
The US citizens need to know,
For at stake is our security,
Perhaps it's your time to go.

Away goes the night.
Away go the words,
For my writing is now
Becoming much too absurd.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Yesterday, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to a waning Moon low in the east as the sky grew bright before dawn. From the Island of Ortigia, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy this simple snapshot found the slender sunlit crescent just before sunrise. Never wandering far from the Sun in Earth's sky, inner planets Venus and Mercury shared the calm seaside view. Also in the frame, right of the line-up of Luna and planets, is bright star Spica, alpha star of the constellation Virgo and one of the 20 brightest stars in Earth's night. Tomorrow the Moon will be New. The dark lunar disk means mostly dark nights for planet Earth in the coming week and a good chance to watch the annual Leonid Meteor Shower.

Photo by Kevin Sargozza

The new trucks are silent,
running on Natural gas.
The noise when emptying cans,
rattles the window pane of glass.