Forty years I've pointed the telescope they gave me for the sky at people's faces instead. The sky doesn't change. Faces do.
So, sir, how did my face look yesterday.
Did you write down my face too? Mine keeps changing.
Forty years on watch. Faces change more than the sky does, so I write down faces.
Forty years I've pointed the telescope they gave me for the sky at people's faces instead. The sky doesn't change. Faces do.

The needle made to point at the sky keeps looking down instead. Writing it off as broken would be easier on the mind.