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Your life was short
And you left me early
One day you were here
The next day you were gone
And life was never the same

Perhaps you thought
I would not remember
Lessons you taught me
About right and wrong
About love and respect

But I remember them all
Like it happened yesterday
They helped define me
And will be with me always
In my heart, right next to you

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I'll wait for you hour and day.
I will not let my love go away.
For all the things you are unaware,
I will remember our love where
All the words you said to me,
"It will be alright, just let it be;
Let it go, move on, get thee past"
Remember when they said it wouldn't last?
We proved them wrong, that's for sure,
For our love went on and did endure.

This brain of mine,
is in a thick fog.
My thoughts, unclear.
Unsure of what to do
as the day approaches
where I won't be able
to care for you.

His eyes grew dim.
The life was gone,
Unlike the day before.
Unplugged the machine,
That allowed him to breathe.
The pain that was felt,
Was not all mine,
For my Mother was
Here by my side.
Keep talking to him,
The Doctor had said,
"For the sense of hearing
Is the last sense to go".
Why do I remember,
My feelings of dread,
When thinking about
The passing of my Dad?
In the ICU room
In a hospital bed,
In Yakima Washington?

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

It may look like Earthrise, but it's actually Venus-set. Just after sunrise two days ago, both the Moon and Venus also rose. But then the Moon overtook Venus. In the featured image sequence centered on the Moon, Venus is shown increasingly angularly close to the Moon. In the famous Earthrise image taken just over 50 years ago, the Earth was captured rising over the edge of the Moon, as seen from the Apollo 8 crew orbiting the Moon. This similar Venus-set image was taken from Earth, of course, specifically Estonia. Venus shows only a thin crescent because last week it passed nearly in front of the Sun, as seen from Earth. The Moon shows only a thin crescent because it will soon be passing directly in front of the Sun, as seen from Earth. Today, in fact, two days after this image was taken, the Moon will create a solar eclipse, with a thin swath across the Earth treated to an annular solar eclipse. Gallery: Notable images of the Venus - Mooon conjunction of 2020 June submitted to APOD

Photo by Dzmitry Kananovich

When I see you
and you're with me,
I remember our life
as it used to be.

I know your face.
I know your name.
I know that you
Can't say the same.

Words now appear
in a great bunch.
Follow me now,
as I have a hunch,
that Fall arrives,
as it always will do,
perhaps there will be
a Big Surprise for you.

For all that you see,
during this long, dark night.
Save your opinion until
dawns early light.
No one cares about you.
Get that part straight.
Keep your thoughts to yourself
and please don't pontificate.

The conversations with the Sunfall,
are the hardest for me to recall.
You ask so many questions of me
and expect an answer. I see
the frustration that dwells in your eyes.
I can only guess; then a surprise,
for many questions, I've heard before,
so I need to recall answers no more.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Today's solstice brings summer to planet Earth's northern hemisphere. But the northern summer solstice arrived for ringed planet Saturn over three years ago on May 24, 2017. Orbiting the gas giant, Saturn's moon Titan experiences the Saturnian seasons that are about 7 Earth-years long. Larger than inner planet Mercury, Titan was captured in this Cassini spacecraft image about two weeks after its northern summer began. The near-infrared view finds bright methane clouds drifting through Titan's dense, hazy atmosphere as seen from a distance of about 507,000 kilometers. Below the clouds, dark hydrocarbon lakes sprawl near its fully illuminated north pole.

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