Moon and Star

It’s past five in the afternoon, I decided to go out and take a stroll around my grandma’s vegetable garden. I realize I haven't visited it since I came home. Actually, I felt my head breaking. It was damn creeping into me. Headache, I say. So perhaps some fresh air and green leaves might help.

Across the distance, I could see some mountain. It's nebulous but I know I was there already. It's where I often see the sun setting while the sky is filled with hues of pink, orange, yellow, some blue and indigo, and red. But as of that moment, it was smoky, like as if the dawn just broke.

Then, I noticed the moon just above me. The sky was still fresh blue. I tried to look for some stars but I failed to see even one. Yet I know there is that single star which always accompanies the moon. It was kinda weird I could not see it too.

The moon. It was beautiful. It was in gibbous phase. It was not so round then and the light seems to come from the east. Part of it is in shadow. But it was still beautiful. And I will regret forever if I cannot take a picture of it. I know soon enough, this scene will change and may not come back anymore. It is therefore best to keep an image of it. So I took a shot through my phone.

Suddenly, I noticed a kite flying. I wonder who was flying it. I tried to widen my sight but the shrubs are far too high for me to see the other side. It seems to be pointing to something. And there, I traced the direction it seems to point. The star I’ve been looking for.

It was beautiful too. It was as bright as the moon, and it even twinkled. For me, it's more beautiful than the moon. I tried to take a picture of it but it was too small to be clearly shot. I have to be contented in imagining it later on.

Then I started calculating the distance between the moon and the star. To think about it, they were both on the same sky. They typically appear together. They share the same hour of the day to be visible. And most of the time, they complement each other to become a sight more wonderful and more beautiful. Moreover, I noticed that even if the rest of the stars are not around, that special star is still present. It stays with the moon, like a constant companion. And they are both lovely.

To where I am standing, the moon surely looks far bigger than the star. But I know that the star is a lot greater in size compared to the moon. The star is just quite farther. But it surely is huge enough to even destroy the whole moon.

I guess the moon won't be that safe is the star is that close to her. And even if that two seem to be just next to each other, I know that is only an illusion because the truth is that a wide, wide distance is between them. And that distance has to be respected and maintained to guarantee the safety of the moon.

But what if the star wants to be really closer to the moon? Does the moon want to be closer to the star too? Is there a way? Or would that seemingly side-by-side position of illusion be enough?

I guess sometimes, some things are just not meant to be together. They may share the same environment and they may need the same stuffs for survival but that does not guarantee they can be really close, really close.