Wish Upon the Moon

Oh, dearest moon, hung high and bright in the sky

I wonder just how you stay so lovely and steadfast

Whilst spinning on your nightly orbit among the stars,

Watching earth’s chaotic turmoil from each angle.

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So many will placate you with nightly promises of reform

Holding fast to gravity and ensuring you’ll keep going ‘round

Despite their lack of effort to create the changes needed.

I wonder, are you weary of what you see even from so far?

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You’ve seen everything, in starlit realms of ugly for

Nights of dismal times are oft’ glorified by perilous men

Who tarnish human morals and threaten mere existence

In ways written of in history books of horror and demise.

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I wonder if one day, you’ll watch this earth from afar

In all its massive toil and evil, suddenly implode

To create changes in this universe you call your home -

Will you be sad then, I wonder, or simply just relieved?

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So, this night, I’ll plead my case to ask for your persistence

To loom high in the sky encouraging all to see the light

To paths of steel resistance, kindness, and endurance,

Even through tough times embroiled with hate and turmoil.

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Oh, moon, for in your distant loveliness, I find a faint hope,

A prayer extending to the depths of man and the creator

For healing to encompass this earth just as often as your

Frequent orbits cause the rise and fall of the ocean's tides.