Halley's II

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This star passes
white   forwardly processions
consecrating sundown, seagulls fondle
gilded sands ...
  Round and round they go -
   like someone's life
we go about

 (A moment.)
You wait for me.

5
This star worths shooting,
 light giving,
  flame reaching - for some ideas
like
  holding someone, meaning...
for all we'd give before
  embering out... to be
  the things we mostly can:
Against the mortality of every physical thing,
 we set ourselves ablaze, lest
  they should be in the dark.

For we shall not perish;
for some things pass,
 but are not yet gone -
  Things that do not die unless we do.

6
This star wishes:
I want you to make me yearn,
  yearn for home.

10 Aug 2016

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