The Sun and Moon

THE SUN AND MOON

The sun rose like always
It still doesn’t know
The moon keeps its secrets so close.

She left near midnight
She said her goodbye
I hope the sun never knows. 

Driving thru small towns
The sign posts pass by
She never thinks she will slow

Smoky cold morning
My heart in my hand
I hope the sun never knows

Monochrome sunset
My life, shades of grey
All but the memories fade

Living without her
The emptiness grows
Shimmering teardrops stay.

Friends try to help me
They tell me I’m fine
They don’t know I just can’t breathe

Lifetimes in seconds
The blink of her eye
Memories only deceive.

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This is partly a combination of several breakups in decades gone by. It was written in September of 2020. The inspiration for this came from a line in a Gram Parsons song, “Brass Buttons”. His lyric is “And the sun comes up without her, it just doesn’t know she’s gone. And I remember everything she said”. (It’s said that song is about his mother). That lyric has bounced around in my head over the years until I came up with this song. There was a lyric I liked in the original version of Sun and the Moon. It went, “Friends, cardboard cutouts, they tell me I’m fine”, and I love the image of the people in this person’s life being like cardboard cutouts because of his sadness/despair, but I decided it was a little too “out there”, so I changed it to, “Friends try to help me, they tell me I’m fine”. It works better not using cardboard cutouts. I did research cardboard cutouts online and almost ordered one or two for Christmas presents.