Stone of the Sky

I often said you were the moon

From my threshold I would look on and swoon

I would admire the way you controlled the tides

How my heartbeat would rise and fall in stride

With the light that you cast on the sand

And my fingers would dance in it as my hand

Traced the translucent essence of you

All around me, cast in a shadow of blue moon

But it wasn’t a shadow at all you see

You lit up everything around me

And you bathed me in an all too familiar glow

Something I have always longed for and that I know

Could save me, and destroy me still

And it’s a pain I know all too well.

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And while I lifted you up into the sky

I realized

That I was the darkness around you

And every night I held you up anew

Retreating into the black abyss that I called home

To make you shine that much brighter, my stone

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And as everyone envied you I asked myself why

I couldn’t see my reflection in the ocean anymore

I saw only your golden hair, washing over the shore

And if I was the darkness that made you shine

And you were aglow each time I called you mine

And we accompanied each other into the night

And you were the only light

To G   I   E    me.

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It’s no wonder when you left me

I felt lost without the moon, rising in my eyes

The unsung hero of the darkened sky

Where children’s dreams float up into nothingness

And stars cloaked in black dresses

Twinkle with prayers of days yet to come

And I too prayed for a day that would numb

Me, that a Novocain rain would pour down on me

And wrap me up in a blanket of blissful uncertainty

But S

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I was still, and the moon rose again

Waxing and waning into the nothingness

That I had become.

And once you’ve seen the moon you’ll never mourn

The darkness in which it was born.