Moon

Marvelous
Opaque
Orb.
Night-light
          for the world.

Copyright Credit: Amy E Sklansky, "Moon" from Out of This World. Text copyright © 2012 by Amy E Sklansky.  Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Source: Out of This World: Poems and Facts About Space (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012)