MARIAN E. WRIGHT WRITING CENTER

Serving students and faculty since 1971

This poem was the 1st Place Winner in our 3rd Annual Poetry Contest.

 

We were opposites, she and I,

She of the earth and I of the sky.

She ruled day while I ruled night,

She worshiped the ground as I took flight.

But even so we longed to meet

To have our faces lay cheek to cheek,

But we danced to different tunes,

She the sun and I the moon.

Yet, she lit up my dark, I calmed down her day.

Was that the way things had to stay?

Consumed by darkness and forever apart,

I almost destroyed what was left of my heart.

But she of the earth was stronger than I,

She danced to the sun, a fire in her eyes.

Moving the sun with her tale of romance,

The sun shared of its light to give us a chance

So, one by one, they came to appear

Little Suns in the night, so magic and dear.

A sign of true love, or so the tale goes,

That she shared of her sun to lighten my woes;

I laughed in joy at their beautiful glow,

And so the wind sang to her down below.

We dance to the tune, of wind and starlight;

Now bound together, our love shines bright.