“Lo the Moon E’er Shining”

Lo the moon e’er shining

Since July twenty, ‘Sixty-nine –

When all our eyes turned skywards

And a man stepped for mankind.

What visions did it conjure

In every heart and ev’ry mind –

What wonders would await us

Now we’ve left the earth behind?

Lo the moon e’er shining

Over all of history’s span –

From the truths of pagan knowledge

To Copernicus’ hand.

Then along came Apollo and

Armstrong’s famous words were said -

Don’t you think they should have

Called it Artemis instead?

Lo the moon e’er shining

Watching forty years pass by –

Keeping pace of all the currents,

Thirty-five in my timeline.

We share this day between us

My beloved moon and I –

Me forever in its shadow,

Luna forever in my eye.