Illuminated Moon

@ Uootem


illuminated moon...
                so full of yourself, aren't you!

why must you stare at me so?
                following me so un-relentlessly in silence
                                  dominating my nighttime solitude...
                          just leave me to dreaming!... please!
                    don't you know 
                                  I am fully aware that it is all
                                                                just pretending:
                        your casting of light in the darkness?
                                        your creation of shadows... ghosts actually?

I can see you are only a memory
                                of a brighter day gone too soon!

I can find no future in your persistent haunting
                                  for there is more hope in the falling stars
                                                                  that pause just long enough for wishing...

but still there is something about you
                                                I can't resist
                                                          as it pulls and tugs
                            at the very depths of my soul
                                            as if I were the tides
                                                                that sweep the shore at your prodding...
                        as you cleanse the sands of time,
cleanse my troubled mind too!