1096

It’s all just days and days

Losing count while they fly

It’s all an ongoing attempt

To hold the very sky

To grasp these possibilities 

Elusive though they are

To find the unique essence 

Held within each star

We can lay down beneath them

Watch how they shine

We can take our very essence

Learn how they intertwine

How they shift and grow

Together and apart

Complement and contradict - 

Overlapping always at the heart

Time may change all else

As only time may prove

The conviction within the profession: 

Stay with me - all else shall move

If it were but a fleeting fancy

A poetic license gone astray 

Would it have yet prospered to the

1,096th day?

It’s all easy while the stars shine

They say it fades when the sky is matte

But I will love you til it all goes dark -

I will love you even after that