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Warm the Sun
on the back of my neck.
Heat which I needed
for I'm an emotional wreck.

Moments of remembrances
the events which I miss.
All of the hugging,
but especially a kiss.

What life will bring,
Death will take away.
Matters not the strength,
realizing, they will not stay.

Fast cars
and fast women
were never in my
vocabulary. Not now, not then.

I loved cars,
liking to drive fast.
Gas was cheap, but
tires wouldn't last.

This soul is lost,
he will survive
the mental challenges,
if he is to stay alive.

Many thoughts,
have turned to dust,
while his emotions,
are starting to rust.

So, what's the story,
here and now?
I must stay with her,
for I made a vow.

Born, we are.
Live, we do.
Love, we may.
Languish, we can.
Die, we will.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The cosmic brush of star formation composed this interstellar canvas of emission, dust, and dark nebulae. A 5 degree wide telescopic mosaic, it frames a region found north of bright star Aldebaran on the sky, at an inner wall of the local bubble along the Taurus molecular cloud. At lower left, emission cataloged as Sh2-239 shows signs of embedded young stellar objects. The region's Herbig-Haro objects, nebulosities associated with newly born stars, are marked by tell-tale reddish jets of shocked hydrogen gas. Above and right T Tauri, the prototype of the class of T Tauri variable stars, is next to a yellowish nebula historically known as Hind's Variable Nebula (NGC 1555). T Tauri stars are now generally recognized as young, less than a few million years old, sun-like stars still in the early stages of formation.

Photo by Yuexiao Shen

Moonlight beamed
off my brow.
I was still trying,
to determine how,

I had become,
entrapped here,
with few friends,
but family near.

I realized,
much too late,
my lovely wife,
my lifelong mate,

was no longer
close to see,
but one floor,
below me.

It's been a year,
the 28th of November.
No lying-in bed, no hugs,
all so hard to remember.

I will write of tomorrow
and the joy it will bring,
with friends and family,
we'll gather to sing.

A joyful time of life
a special time of year,
where we all gather,
singing songs, so dear.

Wind rustled,
through cattails,
near the pond,
rippling the water.

A peaceful sound,
with aroma unique.
Close your eyes,
enjoy a nap.
You will fall
into a deep sleep.

He was a
guitar picker,
loving to pick
when drinking liquor.

He became renowned
across the land,
becoming the lead,
in a Rock and Roll band.

She lay abandoned,
like a worn-out shoe.
Alone, was she
being homeless too.

Falling on tough times,
no help, she couldn't do
anything, no family,
who to turn to.

Trying to work.
What address? A few.
Could she use them?
Lord, what shall I do?

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