Moon Shine

            Moon Shine

 

Full is the moon this autumn,

        as is my heart,

lonesome for the thing it needs most �"

      the light that causes it to shine.

 

As it is, it is alone.

      Hurt and hurt again,

      yet shining still by leftover light.

 

How it needs more of what causes that light!

      Without it, that lovely light,

      it wans and fades in its fullness.

      It’s tears over the loss make new

      drops in the sky to be also

      illuminated by what’s left of the light.

 

What a lovely, lonely, sorrowful

      luminescence; bravely giving up

      its last bit of quintessence into

     Eternity.

 

I absorb it . . .

 

-Jo- October 15, 1986,  7:50 p.m.

Speicher, Germany