Awakened By The Moon

I didn't think it possible…and at the time I thought it inopportune… But in the early hours of the morning…I was awakened by the moon. I tend to sleep less soundly these days…now that I'm a little older. Perhaps that's why I felt (or sensed) a moonbeam on my shoulder. I opened my eyes as the moonbeam nudged me… I eavesdropped on a gentle breeze and outside my window the moon was full… as it filtered through the trees. It was still dark when I checked the time…It was only half past four So I turned away from the moonlight…determined to sleep some more. But her moonbeams were persistent…in the window they kept peeping So I got up when I finally realized…I was finished with my sleeping. I walked outside…the morning was brisk.. It was still too dark to see… So I sat in a rocking chair and began to wonder… what the moon would want with me? When my eyes adjusted to the darkness The mountains in front of me were aglow…. And I decided to linger awhile on the porch and enjoy the show. The moon was floating in a luminous sea…A mixture of dark and light… And only the brightest stars in the heavens…were visible in the night. As I sat alone in the silence of the morning watching nature's wonders drifting by I understood what Shakespeare meant when he said our souls are in the sky. And I thought this is exactly what I needed After a week filled with hate and sadness and sorrow… And I secretly hoped in the back of my mind to be awakened by the moon tomorrow.