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When I am gone,
left and not with you
Give the Devil his due,
and drink a brew.

Love not another,
for if you do,
there are no guarantees,
you will end as two.

God may move,
in mysterious ways,
but in my life,
It's the end of days.

For naught of love a voice was lost.
For naught of prayer there was a cost.
What will thy do if all fails,
will you live your life in jails?

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The monsters that live on the Sun are not like us. They are larger than the Earth and made of gas hotter than in any teapot. They have no eyes, but at times, many tentacles. They float. Usually, they slowly change shape and just fade back onto the Sun over about a month. Sometimes, though, they suddenly explode and unleash energetic particles into the Solar System that can attack the Earth.  Pictured is a huge solar prominence imaged almost two weeks ago in the light of hydrogen. Captured by a small telescope in Gilbert, Arizona, USA, the monsteresque plume of gas was held aloft by the ever-present but ever-changing magnetic field near the surface of the Sun. Our active Sun continues to show an unusually high number of prominences, filaments, sunspots, and large active regions as solar maximum approaches in 2025.

Photo by Mike Wenz

The days were sad,
the nights forlorn.
My love is strong,
my heart is shorn.

So many days,
so many nights.
Days are busy,
lonely the nights.

When I get older
and I am King,
I will dress up,
wearing lots of Bling.

Living on the edge of the World,
a much smaller place today,
as she suffers with an unbearable disease.
What cost for she and they?

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Why is Phobos so dark? Phobos, the largest and innermost of the two Martian moons, is the darkest moon in the entire Solar System. Its unusual orbit and color indicate that it may be a captured asteroid composed of a mixture of ice and dark rock. The featured assigned-color picture of Phobos near the edge of Mars was captured in late 2021 by ESA's robot spacecraft Mars Express, currently orbiting Mars. Phobos is a heavily cratered and barren moon, with its largest crater located on the far side. From images like this, Phobos has been determined to be covered by perhaps a meter of loose dust. Phobos orbits so close to Mars that from some places it would appear to rise and set twice a day, while from other places it would not be visible at all. Phobos' orbit around Mars is continually decaying -- it will likely break up with pieces crashing to the Martian surface in about 50 million years. Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)