now stars go missing in the summer sky
while stub-tailed comet promises dire days
no cloud will come to temper the hard blaze
of unforgiving sunrise when the eye
notes every droop and watches as the dry
heart of the kingdom stands revealed the praise
goes far from us to those who would amaze
both child and elder with some easy lie
life changes fast and the urgent voices
that might report the meaning of each tale
fall silent as we have to hurry forth
to new devotions to human choices
anger behind us so that we won't fail
and faces set towards a truer north
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