Moon and Stars

"Moon and Stars" As a child there was a night I ventured out alone...... to lay in the tall grass of a nearby field. I had decided quite impulsively........ to test my courage against the phantoms and mysteries which inhabit every childs mind. Laying there, the darkness seemed impenetrable crickets scatched their ancient songs I swatted at mosquitoes, hungry for my blood Around me the grasses moved in random waves dancing in the nightime breeze Alone..... I listened with a fierce acuteness for the first sounds of my imaginations monsters Adrenaline pumped thru my body as I forced myself to stillness. Any moment now, I was sure..... some unseen nightmare would carry me away to uncertain doom. yet, I stayed to battle my demons. Just then..... at the moment of my greatest despair, the clouds parted, and I saw, perhaps for the first time, the new moon cradling the stars My fear ebbed away like the tide of a great ocean I was left with an unspeakable understanding, to ponder thoughts much larger than my own human fraility Not so long ago there was another night I ventured out with you quite impulsively To again test my courage against the phantoms and mysteries that inhabit the  mind when love has been betrayed The darkness seemed impenetrable, cynics sang their ancient songs, I swatted at emotions like mosquitos hungry for my blood I listened to you with a fiece acutness waiting...... for the first sign of my imaginations monsters Then..... you smiled and in that one gesture..., I remembered the moon and stars Written March 26th, 2002 © on Mar 25 2002 11:04 PM PST   0 • 8