Standing in the balcony, staring at the stars

Wondering how many secrets the night hides

How much love, how much wars

But still, in the sky, the moonlight silently resides

Thinking about the messages the night give

The cries and tears it absorbs

Teaching us a way to live

Through all those silent anger and sobs

The relief it gives to some, sadness to other

In deep sleep, as dream gives rides

The peace and purity it gives further

But still, the moonlight silently resides

Taking the broken in its lap

Giving the dreamer’s thrill and excitement

As around them beautiful dream, it wraps

Relief and solace as they lent

Helping people to escape the cruel reality of the day

As emotions rise like tides

Silent as a corpse as people lay

Keeping melancholy away, the moonlight silently resides

Being the company of awaken restless souls

As they keep staring, lost in the space

Some questioning their decisions and their goals

Trying to escape this never-ending race

Spreading light in some lives and in the sky as I see

Fighting to put the darkness aside

Enchanted by its beauty as a question struck me

How after all the darkness, the moonlight silently resides?….

By:

Jasmine Grover