The Moon’s Rejoinder

Do not be startled,
I am responding to you.
Haughty, you say,
no, please do not judge me
as I refrain from judging you.
Indeed as I spin,
a child’s ball on a string,
I stray farther from you,
so I pray you won’t grieve
when I am a hole in the sky,
and, you see, I have much to do.
I am your only moon
that brings light
in the dark of the void
as my brother sun
rests at the end of day.
I control the tides
and am privy to the
secrets of the sea
and can bend those secrets
to my whim.
It is my light that reflects
from your lover’s 
eyes and skin
as you lie close in bed.
And I am alone
but not lonely,
surrounded by millions 
of pinpoints of light,
as you float among
sparkling stars
who walk in shoes like your own.
Take heart, and bonne  nuit,
let not your aloneness
be lonely.

(A companion to “Whispering to the Moon”. Thanks to Mental Journey for the information about the moon moving farther from the Earth.)