THE CROWN JEWEL

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Did you see the moon last night?

my eyes swore they'd never seen it before

the two of them said it cut through my core 

entered through the door

I didn't know what they meant

this room never existed before

in a flash, these, mine, 

eyes were consumed

unsettled since, overcome with a desperate thirst

they prostrate to the sky, begging, 

for just one more glance of the crown jewel 

last night, I lay in a meadow and showed it to them

whimpering, they cried this is not the same moon 

wandering, restless, they weep and refuse rest

they are addicts scouring for that one drop left 

at the bottom of that one bottle they once held

they've tasted perfection and can't find it again

since they've been crazed I've lost direction

I fell into a ditch, I drove my car into a tree

I can't see 

I cry and beg my eyes to come back to me

this morning before dawn

they made me climb a tree and cut down all the leaves 

they directed me to place them on my eyelids 

and they sighed 

the leaves are cool, 

soaked in the light of that same moon, the crown jewel

my companions are consumed 

my life is in their hands