Silver moon, I crave a boon: What is this smile you gleam?

Does it shine for lovers and the magic hopes they dream?

Can your smile in truth revile the love we humans seek;

Does your countenance conceal a moonscape dry and bleak?

Just a ruse set to amuse the Gods of Love and Laughter?

Grinning at our Earthly chase for “happy ever after.”

Heaven’s chortles aimed at mortals stung by Cupid’s bow?

Do they fall in stitches at our antics here below?

Is their glee for souls like me? Lost by love forsaken,

Fractured by the memories of hopes so cruelly taken.

Learned men, with quill and pen, have linked your name with love;

Could their eyes have been deceived as they saw you above?

I watch here in mortal fear of your glib smile aglow;

Once more I am plunging into Love’s hot undertow.

Praise be nightly, Aphrodite; mock me if you must;

I have dared to love again, and in my heart I trust.

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