Last night
Moon won its war
against the glare of landscape floods,
against the clutter of dimmed balcony and walkway lights

for Ocean chose to reflect only it
and I applauded in silence.

Today’s dawn
I realized it was not
Moon’s strong fight that won the war
nor Ocean’s strength of choice,

but a well laid plan by Nature’s Physicist
who engineered Moon to rise higher and shine brighter.