Moonlight Shimmer

"Moonlight Shimmer"

I take a long steady breath

     hoping

I let fall from my eyes

another memory to its death,

Closing my eyes

     does not stop

this steady stream

of shimmering droplets

drenched in dreams

from my life.

Moments I remember

only for them to paint

     a picture

that does not exist,

I take another long breath

     hoping

another image

has left away from here

with its weight and meaning,

I open my eyes

covered

with watery droplets

shimmering below a ghostly light,

The haunting silence

holding steady 

among the night glow,

I slowly look up

through my window

and finally see

the moonlight shimmer

and realize

I am not alone,

I cry my tears toward the heavens

knowing there are others

looking up

at this same night sky

also watching

this magnificent moon

shimmering its glow

down upon

our salty droplets of sorrow,

And for an instant

these tears of mine

stop

knowing the moon

hides

the pain and sorrow 

we share with it

behind its ghostly beauty,

And for a night

I finally find peace

as my eyes slowly close to sleep

below this

moonlight shimmer.

-Armando Torres