When he met her at a high school dance,
he fell in love with her immediately.

She had an ethereal beauty unlike any
other beautiful girl he’d ever seen.

After a dance, they went outside, and
she said see the full moon?

That is my home, and one day I’ll
be going back there.

He thought she was kidding and
didn’t pay attention to her joke.

But the next full moon when they
were walking alone in a park,

She said look my home, the full
moon, and she vanished.

And he swore for a moment he saw
her face replace the man in the moon.

He never saw her again after that,
and nobody in his city,

not even the police, knew anything about
who she was or where she came from.

Bob Boyd