Fractured moon <br />In a silver spoon <br />Dissolved into the eyes <br />Of awakening tiger <br />Then moved away <br />In a vanishing light <br />With a lunar tone <br /> <br />Fractured moon <br />Swallowed <br />By a flying dragon <br />With all fire and no fire <br />The fractured moon <br />Collapsed in doom <br /> <br />While the souls <br />Of the dead <br />Still roam <br />Closer and closer <br />Near the moon <br />Around the moon <br />Within the moon <br />Or what have left <br />From a <br />Fractured moon <br /> <br />Or maybe <br />Another Moon <br /> <br />Like a photo of <br />A bright image <br />Held by aging fingers <br />Of a woman <br />Praying in her <br />Upstairs Room <br />For “long” dead <br />Human loved form <br /> <br />Near the bolted <br />Green back door <br />Stood a ghostly figure <br />Of an old man <br />Weeping <br />In the silence of <br />An astral night <br />Trying for an opening <br />To reach her <br />Over and over <br />But in vain <br />For the woman <br />in the <br />Upstairs room <br /> <br />Darkness born <br />In the second shadow <br />Of a fractured moon <br />And light moulded <br />In the old house <br />In a special corner <br />of <br />A very special room <br /> <br />Fractured moon <br />In a silver spoon <br />Dissolved into the eyes <br />Of awakening tiger <br />Then moved away <br />In a vanishing light <br />With a lunar tone<br /><br />Najib Altawell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fractured-moon/
