Death of a Friend's Wife

I knew her as you'd know the sun- If never you'd seen it blaze above But you had seen the moon in phase shimmer and seek that sun's proud gaze. And on a sweet hot summer night When low and laden it comes in sight Holding forth and honey swirled The horizon crossed, it makes the world. Then through that moon, you'd know that sun And you'd love the other, if you loved the one. Planets also need their sun Some scurry close, the dark undone Still others scattered - a creator's wiles? They meter out the milky miles. Far from home, in darkness wrapt But onwards, onwards attend the task! From across the distance a gentle tug Is gravity a kind of hug? It leads them on, a course defined No witness to their great unwind. In someday's someday, the bravework done Let them fall into that loving sun.