I see ten billion miles tonight
through darkling sky and velvet space
I see ten thousand stars, whose light
is dim beside your precious face.
In daylight I can't see as far
as nitrogen turns sunlight blue
But bright light from our nearest star
is outshone by the light of you.
Now in old age my eyesight fails
and aged brain cells clump and die
Though in the light your image fades
you blaze with light in my mind's eye.
