it is always so quiet when it is dead. if it were a blue
midnight or if a glow even presented itself softly in the corner (
as if a sky has corners) there would be more to feel, but it is
black. it smothers the stars and we forget why we are awake.
small candles that
melted into themselves hours ago are pushed together in a half circle so that the little moth (wings singed dying i can't just
squish it) can have some sort of encircled
gorgeous death by candle light. and that is what it was.. just too hot and too bright
beautiful and you couldn't stay away, you silly little moth. so now you are dead.
like this sky and everything that lived in it before.
no one ever suspects the moon, and that is why it is ducked behind a hill with a piece of starlight in its teeth, and that is why you are gone for too long, and that is why it is time to
sleep.