The Earth, The Moon and the Stars

The earth fell in love with the moon
but the moon couldn’t leave the sun
So the earth spent the days gazing skywards
And the moon felt overcome

They all orbited each other
never too close and never too far
the pull of gravity held the earth
like a magnet to its star

Venus felt dumbfounded
As she’d been crushed by mighty Mars
She wept her days and nights
Kept pining from afar

The earth was feeling lonely
and he yearned for a true love
He heard Venus crying
In the Universe above

He wanted so much to comfort her
He vowed to try the best he can
And she in turn so wanted
a decent kind of man

So they orbited from a distance
And they felt the pull of love
But the Moon who’d grown distant
shed tears from the sky above

The Galaxy around them all
was filled with silent stars
each twinkling it message
Lost suns are who they are

Black holes came in to being
and they spread their dark despair
While jealousy was formed at night
On Loves departed cares

Nothing was simplicity
In the void of hurt and pain
Loves shadow was seen leaving
But its substance still remained

Romeo and Juliet
Star crossed lovers we are told
were born from such encounters
as their horoscopes foretold

Yet their story was an old one
First written in the skies
tragedy and compulsion
with jealousy and its crime

The world revolves,so does the moon
the sun and every star
Venus,Neptune and Orion
All captured where they are

Nothing is simplicity
No tail without its end
with heartaches and complicity
From our Universal friends

We on earth must learn and listen
We are but strangers out of time
And when our gaze searches heavenwards
We are all of Universal mind

As we chase around in circles
as we travel round our bends
let us all give grace and all good fortune
lest our broken world descends

Rod Macfarlane