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The moon will sing a song for me
I loved you like the sun
Bore the shadows that you made
With no light of my own
I shine only with the light you gave me
I shine only with the light you gave me
- The Moon Will Sing by The Crane Wives
- An appulse is an astronomical term referring to the minimum apparent distance or the closest approach between two celestial bodies (such as a planet and a star, or the Moon and a planet) as viewed from a third body (usually Earth). It is an "apparent" phenomenon caused by perspective, meaning the two objects are not necessarily close to each other in physical space.
Appulse
An astronomer and his love for the sky is synonymous with the sun's love for the Moon
Unquantifiable, Unreachable but just far enough to see each other.
The kind of love that screams across the cosmos of devotion, resilience and unadulterated want.
The sun and moon are thousands of light years away, have nothing in common but their relation to the less significant Earth Then why in the entire universe is their story so well known?
The sun infatuated with the moon in all of its evening glory
Fixed points in the universe, but one orbiting around the other.
Gravity pulling and resisting like magnets placed in two different ends of space.
suspended in air, chasing each other to no avail
The Earth spins on it’s axis,
Revolving around the Sun, veiling the Moon from the large mass of gases.
While he tries and fails to spin along with the Earth.
He is stuck in his place unable to budge even an inch.
He mourns the increasing proximity,
Till one day he decides to go directly behind the Moon,
Their lights converge, till the astronomers can see a Red moon,
When he wants to try again, he comes in front of her
bows himself to her height,
reducing himself to merely a table lamp
with which she can rest her head and read her nighttime stories.
The Solar and Lunar Eclipse is born out of their devotion,
If only the Sun could see her once,
If only for a little while.
The sky is their playground, heavens their realm of endless possibilities still they do not touch or linger in each other's presence.
Yet the only time they do, they create twilight.