Water Follows the Moon

the water follows the moon

like a devoted partner

a loving bridegroom

it takes its cues from an orbital glance

and pushes itself on the shore

the water follows the moon

once on dry land

it’s pulled back too soon

still it looks to its magnet — a gravitational pull

and washes back into the sea

a despite such a vast expanse

the moon and the ocean

keep an impossible dance

and if the moon’s light casts down on the waves

there’s hope that they’ll meet someday

   so on a night of a lunar eclipse

   hold onto your loved one

   and give her a kiss

   and you can thank God 

   that you’re close enough

   to never let her get away

the moon can’t stop spinning around

it’s caught in a path

so high up from the ground

and it knows that the ocean keeps turning its way

but there’s no stopping or slowing it down

and the moon is trapped by the earth

it can’t escape how it needs it

and defines its worth

the speed makes it dizzy, it’s hard to concentrate

so it just goes through the phases instead

the moon would give up this spin

for one day to fall

in the ocean to swim

or sink to the bottom of the Marinas trench

trading weightlessness for gravity

   so on a night of a lunar eclipse

   hold onto your loved one

   and give her a kiss

   and you can thank God 

   that you’re close enough

   to never let her get away