The light we see
From extinguished stars
Travels ever on, free,
So that someone
On a star, who once looked on,
Has surely gone,
And we from here,
Looking there,
Have also gone
Whose light they saw,
And are no more,
And yet my Dear,
Being so near,
We two are one.
September 2014.
Copyright by D. J. Brennan,
Derbyshire.