SEARCHING FOR MOONS

SPACE, SPACE

1 SEARCHING FOR MOONS

1  There is something to be said but I, for one,

2  forget. That star went out more years ago

3  than we can count. Its ghosts see dinosaurs.

4  The brain says No to the Universe, Prove it,

5  but the heart is susceptible, pining for a look,

6  a kind word. Some are brought to their knees,

7  pleading in dead language at a deaf ear. Spaceships

8  float in nothing in the dark, searching for moons

9  to worship with their fish eyes. It must be love.

2 ASTRONOMER

1  In love with space, stares up

2  as breath smokes signals into night.

3  Light years, loneliness, dark waves

4  lapping moons. From there sees absences,

5  gone worlds; from here perceives

6  new galaxies where nowhere is.

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