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If The Moon Ceases To Exist

Blog City - Day 752

Prompt: What if the moon suddenly ceased to exist? What do you think would happen and how would you react to it? Answer in any form or style you wish.

If The Moon Ceased To Exist

The moon
Holder to changing tides and cycles
Slips off thinking to be unnoticed
A new moon
Held in sustained animation
Leaving a blank, black sky
Inky and dark.
The stars blink and twinkle
Trying to add more to the night sky
But their attempt is futile
Even the North Star seems lost.
A sense of doom holds the land
Curdling the souls
Of those tied to the moon's cycles
Unable to release their pent up hostilities
They lash out
Unpredictable and vile.
The world seems to implode
Pulling in on itself
Like it needs to protect its soft underbelly
There is no safety;
Violence rules
Runs rampant over the land
When the sun makes is morning appearance
The land it scraped and burned
Raped and pillaged
With the nights entanglements.
People huddle
Traveling in groups
Trying to hold on to some small measure
Of security
They pray the moon,
the so casually ignored,
Will return
And bring normalcy back
To this ragged land
Parched and yearning
For the ebb and flow
Of the moon's constant cycles.

I have been uninspired lately. This prompt helped. The real world has been impinging my creativity and I feel a little lost. This prompt helped bring me back to myself.