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Next to the Moon
25 August 2006

Somewhere
on a distant star,
this light did shine
This place in her heart
right next to the moon

Just to know her heart was full of love
this beauty of destination found
Age old traditions, or was this
in the eyes of God, a prophet foretold

Her understanding that to redeem,
just to look into her eyes,
just to reach forth and know
Would it be that day together
never, never to depart

God created love, but did
He make it possible to forgive
The pain of separation,
a longing of togetherness
Just to understand that day,
the day love would be true


“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon
in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but
because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and
measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge
is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to
postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963 assassinated)
35th President of the United States of America, (1961-1963)
Moon Speech, Rice Stadium, Houston Texas, September 12, 1962


© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares