The Moon

The moon has spots.

It’s far from perfect

and yet,

they celebrate it,

worship it fall in love with it,

sing ballads for it set movies on it,

buy land on it build rituals around it,

obsess over every cosmic spectacle,

hotly debate moon landing conspiracy theories,

click it capture it,

in photos poems paintings stories songs sighs,

they even have a term

for people who love the moon.

The moon has spots.

Huge, dark spots

that cover its surface –

scars of accidents

from when asteroids and meteorites

collided with it.

It’s far from perfect

and yet,

it’s considered perfectly beautiful

flawless

normal.

I have spots,

but no such luck.

The Condition

Moons ago, an asteroid

– The Condition –

collided with the lunar surface of my skin,

changing it,

covering it w

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