For years, she had sung to the statue in the garden.
Hand on his knee, head on his shoulder,
looking in the night sky.
Deep, dark, distant.
The statue and his bronze logic,
Organs of alloy,
Thoughts of gold.
30 years, and the dent in his shoulder,
That inanimate junction
capable of all but making a living connection,
Had been worn.
And it shone like the residents of that
Deep, dark, distant,
Night sky.
Distant,
Cold as the look of Death as it goes,
Perfect as her pale, pale skin in the
Deep, dark, distant
Night sky.
He hadn't been able to go to that Ceremony.