mommom

i love you,

   for bringing up what made us cry tonight

   you told me

   i was born of the end of the world

   broke to pieces by the fierce little girl

   with eyes enough to see through its lie lies lies!!

   "this is not it" she blazed.

***

   i made up a story

   of a time she locked eyes

   in the night, she asked for god for the penultimate time

   "why won't dad look up to the moon?"

   and so the moon spoke through you

  you made a whole new more loving world just for her.

***

i love you to the moon and back, and to the moon and back

after all, i chose your name because you are twice as powerful as one.