{"id":340,"date":"2023-12-07T02:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T02:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=340"},"modified":"2023-12-07T22:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T22:00:58","slug":"oh-how-i-wish-to-console-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/oh-how-i-wish-to-console-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh How I Wish to Console the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
Riley Clarke<\/h5>\n
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Oh, how I wish to console the moon.
\nThe disturbances it must see during the nights.
\nThe confessions it must listen to
\nWe force our shy moon to comfort us in the darkest of hours.
\nIt is our night light –
\na gift from Mother Nature for the creatures of Earth who fear the absence of light
\nYet when the sun has gone to sleep and you are there in solace,
\nI cannot help but feel sorry for you, Moon.
\nI see such a sad face peering down at me mimicking my own.
\nI must ask,
\nare you sad, Moon?
\nOr are you solely a reflection of the faces gazing up at you?
\nI fear it is both.
\nI wish to console you yet I cannot help but disclose my most woeful of thoughts to you only. To promise you that I will not would be untrue
\nand you are too beautiful to tell such lies to, Moon.
\nWhat an odd friendship we have.
\nLet me tie a rope around your width
\nand pull you away from the black abyss that pools around you.
\nThat way I can listen to all the horrors you have witnessed not for my own pleasure
\nbut to share the sorrow you hold in your eyes
\nand remind you that even you, Moon.
\nEspecially you, Moon,
\nare not alone.
\nAnd afterward, when your stories have run dry
\nor I have grown mad
\nI will release the rope from your bounds
\nand watch you float back up to your home with the ease of a helium balloon flying with the winds.
\n\u201cHow the weight has been lifted!\u201d
\nyou will rejoice so graciously.
\nThe next night as I ponder over the tales you told,
\nI will rush outside to greet you only to be stunned by the illumination of the skies.
\nHow bright you will beam.
\nEven the sun in its absence will be proud of the paths of light you offer.
\nI watch as you guide the lost fawns back to their mothers’
\nbaby rabbits to their holes.
\nIn the midst of it all,
\nI will catch glimpses of you from above with a smile on my face
\nonly to find that you too are smiling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Riley Clarke Oh, how I wish to console the moon. The disturbances it must see during the nights. The confessions it must listen to We force our shy moon to comfort us in the darkest of hours. It is our night light – a gift from Mother Nature for the creatures of Earth who fear … <\/p>\n

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