THE MOON.

This week’s prompt at Poetry Jam is the moon. The moon is to me the symbol of loneliness in the good sense of the word, that is to say, it represents a being that, in spite of being alone, doesn’t stop shining. Loneliness isn’t to it – or her, as mentioned in the poem – an obstacle or a reason to fade, but a motivation to keep being as powerful, beautiful and bright as it (she) always has been. Regardless of how many years, centuries, even millennia, she spends alone; she’ll always keep letting her light shine.

Higher and higher she flies

Hung on such sinister skies

And all on her own

Not a single word does she say

She quietly stares at us play

And all on her own

And she owns a mirror on earth

Where she can admire her worth

Because she’s all on her own

So elegantly dressed in white

Everyone suspicious of her dark side

To her surrended even the ocean tides

And that’s why she’s so lonesome

But don’t you dare slide

Never let the black skies around you

Say your beauty you must hide

Don’t you dare fade away

Never stop shaking poets around you

And dwell dreamer’s minds night and day