Thursday, February 18, 2021

Schopenhauer on the Moon

December 24, 1968, by the crew of Apollo 8.

     


All of us,

it's warming to think,

dream the same dream,

but can that be right

on a planet brimming with humans,

deceitful, venal, fearful, and armed,

unless that dream

is someone to love us,

or someone to love,

or the existence of heaven,

and maybe that's all the same thing?