Parodoxical Light

You wax and wane as celestial cheese,
delighting in your paradoxical mischief;
moods of quicksilver in mercurial shift.

At times brazen, shamelessly gaudy,
teasing the sun, flirting with the stars,
you intimidate the shadows, humiliating the dark.

With the turning of the earth. . .you fade.
Your light fleeing to the shadows,
you shrink and stoop in meek apology.

Stars wear diamonds in celebration,
jewelled triumph in a shadowed universe,
knowing victory is fragile and short.

Waxing gibbous and on to full smile,
your mood lighter in the favour of the sun,
you reign again in a humbled sky.

Through all, you enslave the oceans
ebbing and flowing with your magnetic personality,
servants to your kaleidoscopic whim.