Shedding

Posted on by Reena Saxena

You believe you shine with borrowed light. The Sun knows it clothes you, but also conceals beauty of the original.

Poets are busy giving you different names to facilitate expression of the complex.

You do find courage to shed clothes, but your identity remains enmeshed in nomenclature. You are just the Moon … let adjectives be silent.

moon shedding its garb

sunlight melts away in dark

revealing glory

Haibun Monday 9/28/20: to the Moon!

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