i am selfish in my adoration - in my observation as if this light, this moon is mine& mine alone. as if no other being is looking upon same face as i as if this face is put on just for me. as if she is my mother and she has no daughter quite as grand as i.
i bottle her clear, unlying light with my eyes & hide those bottles away deep my chest somewhere close to my heart so few may see it.
her beams are a lullaby sweeping over mountain ridges that i like to pretend only i can hear as she sings over the loud whispering of the trees. i like to think that i am sole and secular in being bathed in her spectacular, white-gold luminescence. her engulfing gaze is the emanating heat of my blankets, encompassing me like a child. i do not share this warmth- no, no instead i wrap it tightly around me, i burrow down within it and let it dissolve the cold of the world untouched by her light. her light keeps the true night away— even the creatures who ride the wind, howling and furious still. they skitter around her; quiet and heavy with awe as if they know they are in her territory and their kind are not welcome there.
her grandeur is not to be shared nor looked upon by unworthy eyes. it would be vain to think that no other shall gaze up at her as i do but i shall be vain. i shall be vain and i shall try to trap her essence within my veins to keep the undeserving away. i am gluttonous with her abundant shine & in quiet, lonely moments like this i {selfishly} like to think that she is smiling just for me.
written at the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.