The day I felt lonely,
I went outside to find you.
You were always there
to brighten the darkest days,
but today you hid.
Zero percent visibility.
I wondered if you were okay,
and if maybe you felt lonely, too.
Two days later,
I felt lonely again,
and instinctively,
I went outside to find you.
From the right,
I could finally see
a bit of you.
Less than 49.9
percent.
It was as if you were
peeking your head,
too shy to say hello.
I waved and smiled,
And hoped you felt
less lonely than yesterday.
Four days later,
I visited once again,
and this time I could see
the right side of your face.
Illuminated about 50
percent.
I wondered why you still hid,
but I didn't want you to go away.
Therefore, I kept quiet,
and just enjoyed your company
by your side.
Routinely,
about four days later,
I went to visit once again.
I couldn't help
but smile as I saw you.
You almost seemed to
appear back to normal,
with your right side lit up.
Less than 99.9
percent of you shined.
It appeared to me
in that moment
that you were waxing—
smiling bigger and bigger,
and illuminating
more and more.
At first you were shy—
new to everything—
refusing to appear.
Then you appeared
like a crescent,
a grinning smile
discovering the world.
And now
you are at gibbous,
almost completely
in my view.
After wondering
and pondering
how you would look like.
Exactly two weeks
after you had disappeared,
I finally saw you once again.
You were bright and full,
a hundred percent glowing,
and illuminating the sky.
You seemed so happy,
it made me smile.
I was so glad
to finally see you,
that all my worries
and loneliness
went away.
Two days later,
I noticed you were waning,
your right-side disappearing,
how you had looked like
at as a gibbous.
The following days,
I noticed a pattern.
From a last quarter
to a waning crescent,
It opposite exactly
The same as last time,
but I could only see you
from the left this time.
It was a cycle,
and slowly but surely,
I learned to live with it.
Because no matter what,
I could always count on you
every 28 days.
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A/N: This is a poem I wrote for one of my classes. I haven't written a poem in like foreverrr, but this is more like a work portfolio now so I want to post it. Happy New Year for anyone reading this! Let's hope for a better year :)
