Eclipse

I can only see the moon when the sky goes black

Yet when the sky goes black, I can’t see the sun

A predictable cycle of a snake biting its own tail

Only allowed one when the other is done

Without a true beginning or end, consistent within its countervail

The repetitive movements of an age-old ritual

World aching to comply

Life thoroughly habitual

As daybreak colors the sky

And nightfall takes it away

A union was only found on the day of the eclipse

The white ringed moon seared into my eyes

Blind to anything but it’s wonderful grip

The world moved around me as I stayed stagnant within it’s reprise

Will the refusal to blink away this unity cause my misery?

Do I really want to repeat that image so much?

It was but a flicker in time, and yet I had made it last forever

Like a parasite it stays, me enticed by its kind touch

The heat has caused my skin to sever

The moon brings the tide up as I stand motionless

Either way I will die

Whether from the sun’s loving caress

Or the moon’s graceful rise

My skin prickles as the layers are torn away

The water wades at my neck like a soft embrace

It’s too much

I've had enough

No longer is it a gentle touch

The water was rough

The heat scathing

Did anyone care?

I could hear myself wailing

Was anyone ever there?

Was I the one who had to atone?

After all this torment

Did they just leave me alone?

I close my eyes

But it’s too late

In a world of infinite choices

Why did I choose to wait?