A Singular Take on Moon Shadows

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Whatever our ethnicity, creed, gender or sexuality, love does not discriminate. Moreover, its continuum across time and space contributes positively to our future, leaving the small-minded, ignorant, socio-cultural-religious bigots among behind for all their hue and cry…

I may speak as a gay man, but of course it isn't only gay people worldwide who are attacked for falling in love and leaping socio-cultural-religious trenches. We only have to look at the Sudan right now where a Muslim woman faces a barbaric death for falling in love with and marrying a Christian. Others, too, worldwide are persecuted for various socio-cultural-religious reasons. Whatever happened to civilisation...?

Now I well remember gazing into the night sky with my late partner many years ago. We were going through a rough patch at the time although our troubles were coming at us from outside not inside our relationship. ‘Hey, look, he cried, ‘The Old Man in the Moon is smiling. Well, he must be able to see what we can’t from all those light years away so I guess we should stop worrying, take each day as it comes and...be happy, yeah?'

I agreed, so we did, and we were during the short time we had together before he died. Even so, love never dies and we remain close.

A SINGULAR TAKE ON MOON SHADOWS

We lay, my gay love and I,

in craters of the moon,

watching satellites crash by,

guiding stars shot down;

of sanctuary, we saw no sign

for such as you and I,

and only craters of the moon

offered us even shelter

Saw the galaxy disintegrate

as The Old Man warned

humanity of tempting a fate

worse than Armageddon

save for we who shall remain

to dare live and let live,

give our all to starting over

in peace and love

In time, may all gay lovers lie

among craters of the moon,

guiding lights in a darker sky

than any heavens deserve,

on the killing fields of bigotry,

see politics and religion

surrender centuries of hypocrisy

to a common humanity

Gay lovers, see the Old Man smile

and go (for us) that extra mile

Copyright R. N. Taber 2008, rev. 2014