Another Moon Promised Poem by Marcia Schechinger

Another moon promised
as i dangled my foot
over his denim pants
letting my stiletto slip
casually from my heel

Stars foiled the sky
as he spoke hums of love
that refrained everafter
His words coiled
as if a mirage making magic

He flicked his cigarette
to the blanched coated pavement
and it sizzled from the heat
Here we vowed before the cosmic powers
we'd never be parted

The moon took us on a ride
as we floated on love's magic carpet
But again the stars in our eyes
were brighter than those in the sky
The moon chipped away
to a sliver, the grey was here
our spiral staircase collapsed
I became the rain and snow
as my colored lashes
smeared the sheet
and the threads split from the pulling

The night's cruel words echoed like thunder
resounding in my ears
The moon hid in a halo of hashish delusion
as a ring punctuated our storm

I died that night to be born again,
as the prism of light
around the moon finally passed
and the ice crystals departed
So as a new moon could come
pure and clean without storms