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You are the love,
of my miserable life.
I want you back,
as my beautiful wife.

I know at this time,
it will never happen, now.
I pray for guidance,
but love is here for thou.

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Dominated by dark matter, massive cluster of galaxies Abell 2744 is known to some as Pandora's Cluster. It lies 3.5 billion light-years away toward the constellation Sculptor. Using the galaxy cluster's enormous mass as a gravitational lens to warp spacetime and magnify even more distant objects directly behind it, astronomers have found a background galaxy, UHZ1, at a remarkable redshift of Z=10.1. That puts UHZ1 far beyond Abell 2744, at a distance of 13.2 billion light-years, seen when our universe was about 3 percent of its current age. UHZ1 is identified in the insets of this composited image combining X-rays (purple hues) from the spacebased Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope. The X-ray emission from UHZ1 detected in the Chandra data is the telltale signature of a growing supermassive black hole at the center of the ultra high redshift galaxy. That makes UHZ1's growing black hole the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays, a result that now hints at how and when the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed.

Dark was the night,
pale was the Moon.
A burst of light,
which ended too soon.

Is it time to expunge,
those words, remaining inside,
or should I wait and
allow those words to hide,

inside my head,
where they will remain,
until their decay comes,
at the end of time?

I worry now,
but not my heart.
My life's incomplete,
when we are apart.

Choose your worry,
sharpened like a knife.
It's not about you,
it's about your ailing wife.

The wind sprays,
rain onto my face,
down my neck,
all over the place.

Attempting to plant
bulbs for Spring,
as they grow.
Oh, the colors they will bring.

It's time to purge the data,
from this old man's mind.
I'll work hard on the words,
and be truthful but not unkind.

All the words, jammed within
the aging, old man's brain,
will be truthful but sometimes
will border on insane.

Thoughts about memories of ours,
so many years ago
and all the joy they
brought about our life's show.

Separating all the assumptions
from the truth, at last,
made the years go by,
as quickly as our past.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier's famous 18th century list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, debris from the death explosion of a massive star witnessed by astronomers in the year 1054. This sharp image from the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) explores the eerie glow and fragmented strands of the still expanding cloud of interstellar debris in infrared light. One of the most exotic objects known to modern astronomers, the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star spinning 30 times a second, is visible as a bright spot near the nebula's center. Like a cosmic dynamo, this collapsed remnant of the stellar core powers the Crab's emission across the electromagnetic spectrum. Spanning about 12 light-years, the Crab Nebula is a mere 6,500 light-years away in the head-strong constellation Taurus. Album: Moon Eclipses Venus: Selected images sent in to APOD

The Sun rose slowly,
in the Eastern sky.
"No rain in sight",
was the well-known cry.

At last, we could
tape and paint,
the outside walls,
to a blue faint.