The Moon Set The Stage

9.20.2019

 

I spy

Across the room

A face I have only

Known since noon

A hand I helped

A love had bloomed

Watered by the cycle

Of the moon

 

New moon

 

A cycle of phases

A wink

I don’t need a think tank

To think

She had me at the first

 

I spy

Across the room

A face known

As my children’s mother’s

A hand I’ve held

More than any others

Walking by the light of the moon

 

Full moon

 

A cycle of phases

A wink

I don’t need a think tank

To think

She had me at the first

 

And every year since

Beginning of November

To October thirty-first

Two hearts as full

As full as this moon

Been riding the tides ever since

 

I spy

Across the room

A face I’ve known

For nearly forty Junes

A hand I’ve held

Through endless cycles of moons

 

Waning crescent

 

A cycle of phases

A wink

I don’t need a think tank

To think

She had me at the first

 

The moon set the stage

Illuminated by the sun

We roll through its phases

Together through every one

Been riding the tides ever since

Through every age

By the light of the sun

But the moon set the stage

 

The moon set the stage