She was a crescent moon never completely lit She imagined someone out there would find her and strike a match She never considered it might hurt This moon hid from most things She orbited around a planet that was so unfamiliar to her She knew others like her existed galaxies away It made her feel both lonely and special.
The moon befriended stars She sometimes wished she was small and bright and fleeting But she was large and slow
One day one of the stars started mocking the moon with his light He would shine right in her eyes and tell her she was nothing
The moon gradually grew smaller It only looked within itself with shame Finally, there was just a tiny spec
The whole world burned.
The moon chose to listen to an ignorant critic, because it was ignorant of its own worth, not realising that without it, there would be no critic. Loneliness can be to blame, to an extent. Without the cool presence of the moon, without darkness, there is no βlightβ or, at least, there is no appreciation of the difference. Therefore, the world burns - literally, in the sun and metaphorically, with indulgence.