My Moon and His Darkness

You were the moon to my vast sky

whose light brightened my existence.

You were encompassed

only by the stars abound

that blinked and sighed and marveled

at your ethereal beauty.

I looked and looked at you

searching for the answer

that would lead me into your embrace.

You led me into a state of vulnerability

and I kept conversing with you,

hoping you would reach out

to fill me with the glow of your moonlight.

You, I believed,

were the sole gleam required

to put me into irrevocable bliss.

But then the sun rose

and you were lost in its blinding sight.

I crouched deeper and deeper into my shell,

constantly waiting for you to reappear.

I searched and searched for the question

that had introduced me to you.

I grew restless and impatient.

I looked and looked,

I searched and searched,

I waited and waited,

Until the darkness began to creep in,

Until the stars began to twinkle again

and that was when I saw you.

But you seemed to be scarred.

I could no longer reach out to you,

and I had lost you forever.

I saw you again

but I could only see your pain.

I could see your eyes

but they only waited to see the sun.