2021/8/21 #poetry Hopefully, by the time you find this, night will already have fallen. It will be simple, then, for you to go out and look at the Moon. You won't be the only one doing it. That's the thing. The Moon has had more visual attention placed on it than any other person, place, or thing in all of Earth's history. Even before humans existed and long after they've passed, that satellite will continue to attract the eyes of many many trillions of creatures. Some people can't see, it's true, but most can and for them the Moon is the one sight that hardly anyone has missed. We share it like nothing else. Not even the Sun has the draw of the Moon, most won't watch the Sun for very long. It's what the Sun does that's so enthralling, the colors that it casts about the sky as it rises or sets. The warmth it generates and drops upon us. The sights it allows us to see, such as the Moon. The Moon though, with the Moon it is what it is that makes it so interesting. A disk, a dome, or a crescent of light. Softly glowing but still bright enough to let you see. Whatever you see though, under that strange light, always draws your gaze back to the Moon itself, as if you don't really trust it, or feel it's trying to trick you. You have to check. Looking at the Moon with no other thing to do seems to be a perfectly fine occupation. There's no reason to feel a need for anything more. It works, always, no maintenance required. Balancing the active it just reflects, and allows you to too.