Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Moon and Water

...by Mary Oliver                                                  
Professionally Framed: W 17 X H 29

I wake and spend
the last hours
of darkness
with no one

but the moon.
She listens
to my complaints
like the good

companion she is 
and comforts me surely
with her light.
But she, like everyone,

has her own life. 
So finally I understand
that she has turned away,
is no longer listening.

She wants me 
to refold myself
into my own life.
And, bending close,

as we all dream of doing,
she rows with her white arms
through the dark water
which she adores. 
 
Detail: Moon and Water

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