Awakened by the moon

Awakened by the moon, I stepped outside, 

Shutting the door behind me 

To ensure the cats didn’t follow 

(They’re black; I’d never find them in the dark). 

Lifting my phone, I pressed the big white button 

(How like a moon, itself, except, unlike the moon, 

It never drops behind a veil of clouds 

As this moon soon did). 

However full and present, 

It quickly disappeared, as if it never was; 

So like the light we thought had filled the world 

That now seems hidden once again, 

Or just illusion, and the clouds, so dark, 

Are our true destiny, 

 All light and goodness gone, 

As if the cats had gotten out and disappeared, 

First into night, and then, with one last howl, 

Into the belly of the raccoon 

Who lurks beneath the deck.