Half-moon Tonight: Are You All Right?
Half-moon Tonight
Half-moon tonight,
"Are you all right?"
Half-moon tonight!
Through blinds closed tight,
it's shining right
in my eyes bright!
Half-moon tonight,
asleep not quite.
All sins washed white,
so what's the bite?
Half-moon tonight --
could mean delight,
but sometimes fright,
or even flight.
Half-moon tonight!
You're out of sight,
so if I might,
"Are you all right?!"
Max Havlick
Summer 2010, in Villa Park, Illinois, written to a charming new friend in my 2010 U.S. Census crew whom I called by mistake on my cell phone late one night after the half-moon kept waking me up by shining in my eyes and making me wonder and worry about her. Uncommonly gracious about it for a married twenty-something with two young children, she texted me back that she was fine. We both survived the incident and still remain friends today.
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Copyright (c) 2011 by Max J. Havlick, The Max Havlick School of Personal Creation and World Citizenship, a nonprofit project of New World Community Enterprises, Inc., 16 W. Vermont St., Villa Park, IL 60181-1938, all rights reserved. Permission granted to make and distribute exact copies that include the notes and copyright notice.
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