Your Moon

A poem.

Josh Gane
1 min readAug 20, 2023
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The moon triggers ancient worship
in the soul of your eternal curiosity.

It goes unnoticed for most of us.
But your eyes howl with admiration

when it rises bright in the black sky
or fades white in the blue of day.

Or they look longingly, “Oh no!”
when your instinctual mind sparks

at an odd hour of orbit
or a hiding game behind horizons.

But you find a way!
You are the writer of the night

that assigns the sky’s tenants meaning,
and not the other way.

You are not like the tides
because you do not retreat.

Or the Earth —
You do not tilt.

You are not like anything
that has rules or boundaries

or definition.
I’ve seen those limits fail

when my mind scatters
in the space of your wondrous gaze.

And, like the moon,
all I do is reflect your light

— the universal attunement
of our existence.

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Josh Gane

Freelance Writer; Former writer @ RapTV; Former College Writing Instructor; BA Philosophy UNC; MA English NC State.