Elle la Lune

Midnight
Let’s follow the moon
She would say
As entrenched as we were
In the delirium of innocent love
Starlight casting our shadows
With wishes cascading across the night sky

Hope yet untarnished by time
Meets with desire, diminished by reality
And the girl is just a memory
Imprinted upon my heart
Glimpsed rarely, although verily
Under the admonishing gaze
Of a moon that I dare not seek.