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Care not for I,
as I say goodbye
to life's sweet sorrow.
Away it will fly,
to a better time,
on an evening nigh,
while all you do,
is sigh and sigh.

Assault our Democracy,
was your ploy.
You failed again;
A spoiled boy.
Please go away.
Leave this land.
Go with a grace,
you don't understand.
A poor example,
a defeated man.

When does a Nation, take it's leave,
starting now our painful bereave?
Sedition, treason, under the guise of free speech,
needs to end now. We should beseech,
this attack upon this Nation's Democracy,
in a failed coup towards an Aristocracy.

I love you my darling.
I most certainly do.
I am saddened seeing what
Dementia has done to you.

My thoughts now run amok.
No hate, just a wonder
of where in this life
did we run asunder?

A pain, within, has come to rest
it lies unto my left chest.
When walking on ice, be careful
for the results of falling, are painful.
I learned an new dance step
a week ago. The Costco trip;
reminded me of a two step fall.
A slight shuffle, one step is all,
it took for me, is what I said
at least I didn't hit my head.
My ribs are sore. Oh yes they are.
A painful sleep my rest did mar.
A rib belt is the treatment, you see
for which the doctor did agree.

It has been said by others, who repent.
When you want to lose your memory
and desire to forget, your past life
of errors and other life amends;
when the reality of this life demands
your attention to others; yours to do,
for my responsibility; taking care of you.

Another long hour.
A shot in the dark.
An hour of lost sleep,
When your life is stark.
I return to my bed,
Though I know there are
Words locked in my head,
Except for those words
Missing the letter "R".

Woke up sleepy,
my mind in a haze
for I have only slept
a few hours,
usually during the days.

The journey we make
during this life,
can be short.
Do we continue on
or do we abort?

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What causes sprite lightning? Mysterious bursts of light in the sky that momentarily resemble gigantic jellyfish have been recorded for over 30 years, but apart from a general association with positive cloud-to-ground lightning, their root cause remains unknown. Some thunderstorms have them -- most don't. Recently, however, high speed videos are better detailing how sprites actually develop. The featured video, captured in mid-2019, is fast enough -- at about 100,000 frames per second -- to time-resolve several sprite "bombs" dropping and developing into the multi-pronged streamers that appear on still images. Unfortunately, the visual clues provided by videos like these do not fully resolve the sprite origins mystery. High speed vidoes do indicate to some researchers, though, that sprites are more likely to occur when plasma irregularities exist in the upper atmosphere. Astrophysicists: Browse 2,300+ codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library

Video by Thomas Ashcraft