Every night, I have an unyielding ache- 
a homesickness - 
for the boy who finds solace on the moon,
distant and faint.


One fateful night,
he sailed across the velvet sky,
guiding me away from the lamenting lovers,
who pleaded and ached in vain.


Through familiar streets, he led me,
until we reached the vast expanse of the sea,
and there, he insisted that his name 
had traversed nations, 
seeking me.


Yet, he vanished, so abruptly
leaving me yearning  - 
desolate once more.


Every night, I slip into fantasy,
treading the usual path,
listening to somber cries,
hidden behind weathered and tattered fences.


And, I have carefully documented countless names,
erasing and rewriting them repeatedly,
yet the boy on the moon,
remains enigmatic 
a desire.


The moon weeps alongside me,
night after night, as I plead,
“a sign, a trace, a lover I crave,”
yet nothing looms, 
despite my sorrows.


Sometimes, I worry
that the boy has mistaken me,
for another beauty, 
perhaps I am not the one 
he seeks so fiercely.


“please, do not abandon me,”
I whimper quietly.


Then one night, as I prepared to rest,
I caught a glimmer upon my pillow,
a silver flicker that spoke of destiny,
and there he was, the boy on the moon,
“It was you, always you.”


A gentle kiss graced my cheek,
infusing my emptiness with tenderness,
I abandoned the shackles of loneliness,
and embarked on a quest for the sea.


For, there is a boy on the moon,
his voice calls out to me,
every night, 
a celestial bond woven by fate,
drawing me closer to his eternal embrace.


My love, 
I'm here.

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