The reflection of the moon sits in the middle of a pond.
My favorite thing to do as a kid was to play god. I sat near the water with swaying willows and the sharp scent of the night air and dipped my legs into the sky, coating myself with what I believed to be heaven: the stars and the inky blackness below me.
Ripples in this water were simple evidence of my eternal and formidable power. Who else could cause waves in the sky but God?
But no matter how hard I tried the moon evaded me, and I pretended we were friends and this distance was nothing more but physical space between us.
I could keep playing God, and she could still have her space.
I may have been baptized with the sky and gone home dripping with constellations, but always wondered, maybe all I had was the space between me and the moon.
I knew I was not worthy of her anointment, but I pray whatever argument we had gotten into would one day be resolved.
I no longer play God
But all I have now is still the space between me and the moon.
And I wonder if I would have become God if we had just made up.