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I love you, Ellie.
I surely do.
I'm unsure about me,
and what I will do.

Random thoughts
of no substance.
Off the wall comments,
luck by chance.

What is said,
matters not to me.
If I have a drink,
then I may see.

I'll go away,
you can sleep,
for my thoughts
are shallow, not deep.

These words,
make sense, not.
All you can see,
is all I've got.

Do I confuse you,
with what I write?
If it is so, you best,
hang on tight.

I'll write about,
things, no longer there,
like skin with no wrinkles,
and no more white hair.

Youth is a fleeting tract,
get back on the bus.
There may not be room
for both of us.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The Great Nebula in Orion has hidden stars. To the unaided eye in visible light, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion. But this image was taken by the Webb Space Telescope in a representative-color composite of red and very near infrared light. It confirms with impressive detail that the Orion Nebula is a busy neighborhood of young stars, hot gas, and dark dust. The rollover image shows the same image in representative colors further into the near infrared. The power behind much of the Orion Nebula (M42) is the Trapezium - a cluster of bright stars near the nebula's center. The diffuse and filamentary glow surrounding the bright stars is mostly heated interstellar dust. Detailed inspection of these images shows an unexpectedly large number of Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects (JuMBOs), pairs of Jupiter-mass objects which might give a clue to how stars are forming. The whole Orion Nebula cloud complex, which includes the Horsehead Nebula, will slowly disperse over the next few million years. APOD editor to speak: in Houghton, Michigan on Thursday, October 12 at 6 pm

Before the time,
you came into view,
there was no one,
I knew exactly like you.

So here we sit at
the end of our life,
you are my love,
my beautiful wife.

Too many memories,
when I reflect.
Why am I still standing,
why am I erect?

I should be,
in a hole in the ground,
or my ashes tossed
in the wind, blown around.

The life we wanted,
has rushed away.
A slow goodbye,
day after day.

I will leave,
there is no tomorrow,
all is sadness,
mostly all sorrow.

Does it matter,
anymore?
No one is counting,
no keeping score.

After the night,
comes the dawn.
My life has become,
one, huge yawn.

Should I be sorry,
or just be sad?
Better be a Boy Scout,
that would be rad.

Words are flowing,
as if my bank broke,
so, scribble I will,
it's not a joke.

Do you now know?
Can you understand,
I'm no longer strong,
but still hear the band.

Find a flaw,
in the words, I write.
Tell me, please,
are the words too trite?

I sit and wait,
with osmolality.
Is it wrong to
have a personality?

Here we go,
one more time
with feelings,
love sublime.

Tell me true,
say it today.
If you don't,
I may go away.

My love for you,
is strong with feeling.
Not having your memories,
has my mind reeling.

Forget me now,
would be best
for you.
It's not a test.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Yes, but have you ever seen a sunrise like this? Here, after initial cloudiness, the Sun appeared to rise in two pieces and during a partial eclipse in 2019, causing the photographer to describe it as the most stunning sunrise of his life. The dark circle near the top of the atmospherically-reddened Sun is the Moon -- but so is the dark peak just below it. This is because along the way, the Earth's atmosphere had a layer of unusually warm air over the sea which acted like a gigantic lens and created a second image. For a normal sunrise or sunset, this rare phenomenon of atmospheric optics is known as the Etruscan vase effect. The featured picture was captured in December 2019 from Al Wakrah, Qatar. Some observers in a narrow band of Earth to the east were able to see a full annular solar eclipse -- where the Moon appears completely surrounded by the background Sun in a ring of fire. The next solar eclipse, also an annular eclipse for well-placed observers, will occur this coming Saturday. APOD editor to speak: in Houghton, Michigan on Thursday, October 12 at 6 pm

Photo by Elias Chasiotis