a fall of moondust

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peek-a-boo …

the big blue marble winks at
me just over the reach
a million million stars all about it -
pixies standing guard o’er
that more-than-priceless orb of carbon -
sapphire sphere
in an ocean of light, afloat
a standard of beauty to shame the
grandest of cosmic wonders
yet we’ve led it to ruin
jealously …
what dastard deity saw fit to
give us such dominion?
we are carelessly cruel caretakers
self-serving and greedy
and the bane of any beautied world that
breaches such horizons …
in the end
the moon suffers the sins of the sun
and weeps for the eyes of earth
unblessed by its beams
or disavowed of its pearly paint …
lost to the depths
a king’s ransom of silver -
numberless doubloons that dance and
spin on the swell-tops
with each of Luna’s tender kisses
then tumble to oblivion in
the abyssal void …
oh I filled my pockets there as
a heartsick lad
pining loves lost and imagined
how those callow coins weighed me down
spirit pockets overflowing and
aching with emotions unfelt by others
colors most eyes seemed blind to -
music in a cadence … unheard
“you’re a dreamer, boy … back to earth!”
but I heard, you see
and it was the thrum of my very soul
a note that a thing called “she” had struck
there so long ago -
that sings to me yet of the oaths
we made in passion …
now …
a quarter million miles and
twice as many tears
fill the frozen black from me to that blue ball
and it is the self-same lass that
makes it more than middling -
that wraps it in dazzle …
and wonder 
that whispers to me of all that
is worthwhile … and true
and I shall again hold her burnished gaze
and feel the press of her
kiss on my eyes
before the dust of this cold, gray
vacant world settles …

behind me.





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