I Thought I Needed The Moon Poem by terri kay

You were my moon

lighting up the stars

sheltering me from the darkness of night.

And for a while the evenings seemed less lonely

because the moon was there with me.

And then I saw you slip away.

Going slowly, taking the light with you.

Until you were nothing

And the stars and my loneliness were all that remained.

In the light, I see

that my sun merely reflected off your

cratered, cavernous, hollow reflection

I was illumination all along

And I never needed you.

Except to remind me

of my vast brightness.