Moon of My Life

 On some days
 you are fully there
 and exclusively mine
 no solitude for me to be found
 you follow me everywhere I go
 like the moon on a day of full-moon 
  
 Then comes the phase
 of waning crescent of moon
 where you gradually 
 move away from me
 nothing I do seems right
 and everything I do seems to irate 
  
 Few days later
 you would turn into 
 an old moon
 only a little bit of the person I knew
 would be left
 with your warmth and kindness
 drowned in darkness
  
 There are days
 you are nowhere to be seen
 not a single glimpse 
 despite all my efforts
 no way to get through to you
 like a moon on the day of new moon
  
 Then like the first quarter of the moon
 you would gradually come back to me
 the person I fell in love with
 all warmth and laughter
 making me fall in love with you
 all over again 
 
 Then the days of full moon will be back
 but there’s no guarantee
 the rest of the phases won’t follow
 but here we are
 phase after phase
 through thick and thin  


© Vindhya Colombage 
2019

"With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are as high. Does that make sense? It does. It also makes me sound bipolar. Love will do that to a person" Simone Elkeles

Bipolar disorder; You are either too happy, too sad or you just don't care. Finding the feelings in the middle do not come naturally. You have to fight every day to find them.