The Sun & The Moon



The Sun was the loneliest star in the sky
As all other stars said she was too bright
Despite the warmth she provided with her her shine
They’d cluster together to complain and whine
“She's too big, she’s too bright, and her aura is huge”
But all of them would fade when she would walk in a room
And what they didn’t know is the Sun was quite shy
And she never cared because she was high
High enough up where her light could be seen
Where the warmth of her love could brighten a being
And what the stars didn’t know and couldn’t understand
Is that the sun was actually just one of them
She was only separated by millions of miles
The exact length of road on which she defeated her trials
And while distance was only ever a matter of time
The stars needed the darkness to reflect their shine
So no matter the beauty or warmth of her light
The stars have always prefer the cold night
Far too selfish to their own desperate desires
To ever use the flames of her radiant fires
Still the Sun would show up, each and every day
Ever present and yet, so far away
Solo in her lone blue sky
As everyone on Earth would avert their eyes
Yet without her light there would be no day
And even the night reflected her stay
Upon the Face of her one true love
A celestial body of fantasy whereof
Many have looked upon in the night
To lavish a false admiration of light
But all the Moon has ever known is that the Sun made him smile
Unafraid of her brilliance and intrigued by her style
He’s the only one who would not to not look away
And so the Moon showed the Sun, just how bright she could be
And the Sun fell in love with the Moon, but was sad
Because she just wanted to hold him, oh so bad
And for whatever reason things happen that way
They were a world apart every single day
The Sun crossed the sky in the hopes she would find
That bright Face that she saw in her dreams every night
And the Sun never knew the Moon felt the same way
That he would search across the night until day
But she felt his gravity and he sensed her degree
And even if they couldn’t physically be
They both found a comfort in the void of the unspoken
A truth untarnished by a communication unbroken
A purity of something that was ever true
Never to grow old, always to stay new
Still they dance across the sky to this day
One after the other, never long do they stay
Forever they follow a love that they feel
True to themselves and their life that is real

About this poem

A poem about true love.

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Written on November 03, 2022

Submitted by jpeterson520 on November 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 2,437
Words 477
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 52

Jess Peterson

Jess Peterson is a songwriter, poet, artist and photographer based in the Pacific Northwest. She is a National Champion Archer and represented the US in two World Team Archery competitions. She currently owns and operates a Pet Photography business near Portland OR and will be releasing her 6th album under her stage name “Buddha’s Sister” in Spring 2023. more…

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  • Oceanloveisland
    Beautiful!
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • anchor8hopes
    Delightfully written poem! Story-telling through poetry sure is a charm, and this poem drew me in, and even strangely comforted me, like a warm cup of milk to a long hard day. I was locked onto the poem to the very end, and the ending of the poem was the personally the best part for me :) 
    LikeReply1 year ago

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