Something Lost Inside

© Julie Ruffell

Why am I alone
Out here to witness
This moment?
Why are all other asleep?
Have we gone so
Far from nature
And so far
To technology
That we can't take
Pleasure
From a sight
Such as the moon?
It will not shine
This bright
For another hundred and twenty-three years
Yet no one gathers with me
To take in the sight
And breathe the moment
They are warm in their beds
But cold on their insides