conversations with the moon (1)

[first of two parts]

If I could have the opportunity to talk with someone who I think all people need to finally know about, I would not seek for any President of a certain country, or the astronaut who successfully touched the alien grounds of Mars, or the man who discovered that there’s indeed no supreme being. Instead, I would talk to the Full Moon. This may not count as “someone” yet I am pretty sure a lot would like to know what it is up to and how it is feeling up there.

Since it is impossible to have an answer from the Moon, I will both play the interviewer and the interviewee. I think I am versatile enough so I will try my best to act up as the perfect human questionnaire and the cratered celestial body. And knowing that the Moon’s time is limited, ranging only for 7-11 hours in full form tonight, I shall restrain the number of questions to four. That will be enough.

QUESTION #1: How does it feel being up there?

MOON: It is such a headache, all those floating boulders hitting you once in a while. But through time—and I tell you it is such a long, long time—I get used to it. Glorious? Maybe at some point I had that feeling but, mostly, I feel lonely. I feel so distant. And the other planets are not helping because they aren’t friendly; they are just trying to flaunt each other with their rings, their newfound satellites, or their largeness. My goodness, to black hole with them!

QUESTION #2: Why go full circle every month? I know you have inklings that your sight memorializes a sane human in the verge of obscure psychosis, or signals the local manananggal to come out and feed on the unborn child, or a poor young lad to shift into a werewolf, but why continue showing up? You can go out as a crescent, or a half, or if you insist to come out as a full, you can be invisible, like a New Moon.

MOON: Wow. That’s one garrulous question. I have a cycle—you know that! Or don’t you? Anyway, I can’t decide what I would look like whenever I came up from the horizon. But, yes, it is sad knowing that my complete formation does a lot of changes to many. Let’s just say some beings are just too sensitive for my presence. Why go full circle? I can’t do anything about it. I just have to.

[end of part 1]

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