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Caterpillar moon

Oct 3, 2019, 10:29 PM

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Caterpillar moon

One lonesome night in Africa

Three miles from gloom lagoon

I chanced upon a caterpillar

Smiling in the moon

I gazed at him inquiringly

As time waved from a star

Then asked him for directions

To a place north of afar

Somewhere I’d feel free again

Free to simply be

And not to feel the shame I feel

For seeing what I see

The wise old worm

(who’d been smiling in the moon since nothingness began)

Agreed to guide me with his light

Until I reached my promised land

But first he sent a raven black

To gather my regrets

“they’ll weigh you down”

The worm declared

“best lay them all to rest”

So the raven came and took my burdens

Cast them deep as hate

Into the dreaded gloom lagoon

Three miles from twist of fate

Well I reached my long-lost promised land

Thanks to my neon tear

And when I sense my solitude

My caterpillar moon is near.

About the Author

Maiyan is a visual artist and writer. She has worked as a professional artist and writer in Israel, South Africa, Mauritius and Fiji and created several large public artworks. Numerous short stories are published online and in print. Returning to Israel in 2022, she now lives in Kiryat Tivon in the North. Her latest mission is combining paintings and writing into a collective work which tells the unusual stories and extraordinary situations they survived while maintaining their Jewish identity. As a social entrepreneur, she initiated a tech start-up and is currently building it up between painting and writing.