Moonlight

Promenading with eyes
faithful to a moon lands
a man in a pit. Proceeding
still through a hand-made
hole leads to a nascent, silver
suite where the moon permeates
the whole sky. Continuing still
evaporates every grain
of matter, in and around and
metamorphoses himself into
the moon: dead, solitary
and at another’s mercy; while
the moon that ravishes every
night in many plush lands to
whomever who croons becomes
the proof of Darwin’s theory.

--Pradeep Dhavakumar