the moon is drowning the stars it pushes them under into the darkness they cannot breathe they are flailing the moon boasts to my shadow how powerful is the moon how great its light my shadow nods and calls the moon father though it acknowledges also the existence of others headlights are like little moons father my shadow says they pass like waves in a dark ocean father moon becomes angry and threatens i can maroon you shadow i can trap you in darkness your strength comes from my own the little moons are fleeting like foam on a darkened sea my shadow fears the night as it fears death but it remembers the moon's strength is from another my shadow wants the headlights like an ocean might want the moon as a seducer as a lover