Lighting up the world 

with their vibrant personality 

the sun was the apple of every ones eye. 

The humans below leaving the house 

in the morning  

just to greet him 

to start their days. 

She watched in the shadows  

her darkness she brought 

cloaking the world in her night sky. 

Illuminating the light from the sun  

the earthlings rushing to their houses; 

to avoid the black of the night. 

fearful of her 

fearful of the darkness she brought. 

She, the moon chased him  

watched them rise up into the sky  

as she sank below the horizon. 

She wanted the light  

wanted the attention 

of the onlookers  

and the warmth  

of his smile. 

They were long distance lovers. 

greeting each other face to face 

only when one would rise 

and the other sink below  

the horizon. 

And the people below watching  

their exchanges 

admiring the sun’s beauty  

and how he would light the sky  

a yellow orange for his  

distant sweetheart. 

But with more sunrises 

and the more sunsets 

the more jealous she grew. 

She realized the reasons why 

it was called 

a sunrise and a sunset. 

Even though the sunsets and rises  

involved her 

he stole all their eyes  

with his orange lightshow in the sky.  

The earthlings neglected to realize that  

the tides of the sea bend and break to her will 

that she caused the solar eclipses 

she had many talents  

but all were out shined by him. 

The moon grew more and more distant  

growing annoyed 

at the sun’s efforts  

to swoon her and the people. 

Looking away from the colorful tie dye sky 

while the sun stole their hearts again, 

As he did millions of times before 

in the now red orange sky 

noticing the stars. 

Brighter than the others 

she turned to face it  

the stars smiled back. 

She recalled how the earthlings  

had spent prior years  

making constellations  

out of them 

the stars 

how they made stories to go along  

with each picture in the sky. 

Complex stories  

of complex people 

with complex messages. 

Making paintings of them 

just as Vincent Van Gogh  

Starry Night. 

Gazing into them  

she knew 

the humans loved him 

and gave them attention  

so she would to.  

She wanted that 

the fascination the earthlings had with the others 

she wanted that for herself.  

Her life revolved around them 

but they revolved around the sun 

So with that  

she ignored the sun and his beauty. 

Only paying attention to the 

glittering sky in the night 

sparkling just for her. 

The sun grew jealous. 

Glaring from behind his clouds 

turning the world cold 

lakes turning icy 

and snow decorating the towns 

as the people bundled up 

staying in from the fringed winds. 

The orange sunsets stopped 

because she didn’t care enough to see  

the work he put into the sky.  

The more he hid 

the colder the earth got  

and the dimmer his little got. 

With the people missing the warm glow 

the clouds became thicker 

shielding him from looking 

into the eyes of the one 

who hurt him. 

The plants eventually stopped growing 

their crumpled-up bodies  

laying in the graveyards of crop fields. 

The people hungry  

begging for his return  

because they needed him 

brighten up the dark world he left them in.  

To make the world a green forest 

with flowers blooming 

and the orange of the sunsets.  

The moon needed the sun  

because she stupidly forgot  

she can’t be seen in the night sky 

without his light to reflect. 

With the humans are no longer able to see her 

and the stars giving her  

the attention she craved 

She forgot that  

She was supposed to orbit the earth.  

The moon revolved around them 

and the people revolved around the sun. 

But with the moon leaving the sun broken  

and concealing his cracked heart 

It left the earth dying.