Different Moon

You look different

since we last met

not your usual changing

waxing and waning

but turned somehow

a new angle to your face

Even the stars around you

seem to have shifted their seats

Are you the same moon

that guided me growing up?

The same soft eye

that watched me from the dunes?

Or did you change when I did

when I boarded a plane

and traded sand for snow

sunburn for skyline

home for somewhere that still doesn’t say my name?

Maybe you’re the same,

and it’s just me who’s tilted

my orbit, my view

a planet realigned

I don’t think any less of you

but I miss the way you used to hang

like a friend outside my window

steady, knowing,

lighting the path I didn’t know I was on

Now, from this side of the world,

you feel new

stranger, smaller,

like a photograph taken with someone else’s camera

All I hope

is that, in time,

I’ll learn to love

this new light of you

And hopefully

Your love me me stays true