Beware The Moon
written by: Linda Marie Hilton
Orange harvest moon
Fills the Samhain sky
Leafless tree branches
Provide lace veiling
A chilly walk home
With moon cast shadows
Which hurry us now
Spook us then somehow
Like scurrying mice
We dodge here and there
Needing moonlit paths
Yet eluding moon’s
Urgent grasp tonight,
Night of mortals’ fright
Lest Moon as Mistress
Claims our mortal souls.
Tonight of all nights
The peril is high
That Moon will take us
To the other side,
To walk beyond the
Pale, beyond the veil:
The breath that divides
Life from bitter death:
For most will there stay
Not to see more days
Of cheery sunshine;
But a few will last
In Moon’s harsh tender
Grasp of gravity:
To live here and there
Both at the same time
To be Schrodinger’s
Cat: is and is not
Cute quantum leaping
Sitting and purring
All three all at once:
A familiar
Bound in body’s tides.
So each has a choice
Die of moonlit fright
Or acquire the sight.
Take a quantum leap:
Be woke and asleep
All at once embrace
Life in a warp field
Around Nellis Base:
Wanted dead and alive
Eluding life’s grasp
Exceeding death’s rasp
Shine on Harvest Moon!
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