Moonlight Praise

O Beauty

that lights the midnight sky,

how faithfully you wax and wane.

I am but one seed sprouted in time

Caught, like those before me,

in the rays of your glowing splendor.

Your rhythm flows through my veins

and all life responds with heartbeat

to your magnetic pull.

You rule the ebb and flow of ancient waters.

All emotions and cycles, comings and goings,

even our dying and our being born,

these things await your perfect timing.

 O Moon,

You have lived in our consciousness

Since our first awakening,

Created to be our gift and comfort,

our promise of the morning sun.

Even as Eve first stepped beyond the Gate

that night in lonely silence,

you were there to shine on Adam’s path

and teach the rhythms of your ever-changing face.

They watched the heavens,

awaiting your return each month

and marked the days of your growing brightness

to light the path for the hunt and their returning

journeys home.

 Your cycle echoes that of our own,

from the darkness of our mother’s womb

Into the dawning of our life.

We travel toward the brightness of our days

and in time fade like summer’s bloom,

back to the dust of our beginnings.

 O glorious faithful Moon,

who signs our destiny and bows before the Sun,

remind us always of our God,

In all life’s changes,

and in all your dances with the stars . . .

For we, like you . . . are made to shine,

each a spark of that One Eternal Light.

Joanne Cucinello

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