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Come Back, Moon!

Prompt: What if the moon suddenly ceased to exist? What do you think would happen and how would you react to it?

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This is how I would react to it. I would beg and plead for it to come back. This could actually be a sci-fi story, btw.


Come Back, Moon!

Come back, Moon!
How can you disappear after taming me
with your patterned tranquility?
How can you bear to burn the bridges behind
so masterfully built to the same delicacy
of angel wings?

Now, Moonlight Sonata has lost its sweet chords,
no paths exist for hatchlings to reach to sea,
the earth leans to its side, weeping,
my camera faces a dark sky,
and failing to capture you, I howl.

Come back, Moon,
don’t leave heavens this bare
for without you, we are naked stumps
with no faith or hope, doomed.
Come back to smile on us once more
and do away with this bad dream
this hopeless longing, our gloom.