Moonlight Dancer

By Molly Gunnels

Covington LA

 

The sound of his hooves on the desert

Escape the ears of men

The big black horse with a gleam in his eye

Has run from home again

Now, with great speed, he races the moon

As its moonbeams shine down

Lighting the way for his great escapades

While his hooves churn up ground

His mother and father, wild and free

For an hour or two

He escapes into their cool desert world

Looking for something new

He stops in a circle of moonlight,

Tonight no clouds are out,

It makes his black coat glisten and glimmer

As he dances about

He dances ‘neath the light of the night

Under a roof of stars

He basks in attention from the heavens,

And Mercury and Mars

By now his long absence is noted

They are searching again

The is the part of escape that he loves,

Time to outsmart the men

He has strategies, and plays mind games

Twists and turns, here and there

Donkeys can’t compete with agility

They chase him everywhere

Finally, he turns and runs to home,

He surrenders tonight,

He’s going home not by force but by choice,

For now, he ends the fight

As the gate closes, he’s not concerned,

He’ll escape again soon,

Until the end of his days he will dance,

By the light of the moon

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