The Moon | Aadya Thakkar

People say that once you acquire the moon

It's marks become visible

But who is going to tell them

That the marks have been visible all along

That I have lived each day

Staring at the moon

Admiring those divine marks

Who's going to tell them

That the marks are the things that make it beautiful in the first place

The marks are the thing

that made me chase

Who's going to tell them

That if the marks weren't visible

Then it wouldn't be so beautiful

If the marks weren't visible

Then it would've seemed something alien ,

Something far away

And maybe I would have not even looked it's way

Those are the scars of the moon

Of the relentless battles

It has won and it has lost

Those are its insecurities

That have come and gone

These marks are the things

Which make us normal.

Our worries , our fears , our insecurities

This is everything we should embrace

Because without these

We wouldn't be human in the first place