Moon's Emissary

You are the Moon’s emissary: In mood and shades of dark and light, you share your purpose with your will equally, mixed in the same bowl and pour that bright power bestowed or denied, it seems, according to both season and circumstance. You are the Moon’s emissary: In ebb and flow of human tide, within a chord of disquietude you bring the rebalancing word, stemming here a flood, there dispute, all in the cause of harmony, unless declared as love declares itself. You are the Moon’s emissary: you serve the altering grey sea, hearing its whisper day by night, knowing meanings of silences and seeing the clean horizon at dawn you look where man must be, watching sails shrink to memory. You are the Moon’s emissary: Recognise in her circling dance time tracked as sands of silver ran and know her care is a command extended from the distant stars: To live and love yourself always as you are, others as you can.