Light On the Night Sky

Photo taken by Cassie

I watched you with awe and fear

as your beauty and darkness excite my emotions.

To the naked eye, you are a still object

Silhouetted against an eerie background.

But to my eyes, you seem to dance across the empty sky.

Your light moves around the roundness of your body.

Your pale yellow color accentuates the art of death beneath you.

Your shape is like the Cyclops’s eye,

staring out and lording over the mere mortals like us,

who take time to rejoice in your beauty.

You are the queen of darkness;

a light to the somber side of the earth.

As you ascend above the night sky,

you transform into a harmless creature.

Your white light becomes elusive.

No one can ever tell which side is the real side of you.

Whether it be good or bad,

you have done wonders by your infinite silence,

and unnoticed deceit, dear Moon.