Day 9: Moon

FOR THE TIMES YOU MISS SOMEONE:

it could be someone far away,

or someone within reach who’ll not reach back,

or someone that you never really got to know but know you would have loved them if you did,

or someone that’s been in your whole life but never wholly there,

or someone right beside you, someone you can see and cannot find,

or someone you haven’t even met yet.

 

And your body gets still, and your mind rolls out the words you exchanged or wish you could, and your heart laughs along side theirs, and your hand holds ghosts;

 

that’s when I find the moon, and say this little ditty:

 

“I can see the moon
and the moon sees me.
If you can find the moon,
there, the three of us will be.”

 

I remind myself that it’s okay to miss. It’s okay to long for. We all need to let go and be let of go of, now and again. Even moonlight is bright enough to find the way back home.