A Brave New Life

too far to reach?

The moon shines sparsely upon the silent driveway this night,

luminous shadows hinting of shapes and objects not quite seen

as anger slowly settles hot and low into my still churning chest

and moonlight amplifies my frustrations over yet another fight.

 

Upon me through the haze of night, the man in the moon gazes

cratered for all time with all the hurt of fights long past

as the angry red planet peers over his shoulder full of angst

Mars glowing again in the distant blackened void of caring.

 

Keys rest in my hands this night, same as so many nights before

promise of change dangling from a trilogy of tired silver plated shapes

freedom to change my life flitting about between my stiffened fingers

escape a cool breeze blowing into my car and across my face so inviting.

 

I look up from my shaking hands to the void of calling night skies

to a creation hand-made, and having reinvention its only constant

me thinking that this feeling must exist elsewhere too

carried by one who knows me in that place under the heavens.

 

I lift my hands then to those starry tears of night sky

allowing passion to flow from fingers of flesh to the beacons of hope above

and in return pulling passions back from the fireflies of the abyss

Gods balance between the heavens and the earth mingling as one.

 

My eyes shut, and lightly do my fingers brush her imagined cheeks

longingly reaching across the great expanses between us

and sharing before the maiden mists the embrace of two in tune

harmonic hearts unbreakable and together in the cycle of feeling and desiring.

 

The heavens speak to me now that hope does live yet a little

katedids chirp out to me in chorus that I need not feel as I do

and that a brave new existence is out there among the stars

requiring no less than the courage to follow my dreams.

 

Down upon me the man of the moon still stares

perhaps tilting his luminous head lost in distant lunar thoughts

or maybe seeking answers on my own face as I slowly close my eyes

and drift off to a reality I can only imagine,

                        as I fall slowly off to sleep.

Reviews

[U.Berry]

Nice poem.. keep writing😊