Whole again

Hello moon.
I didn’t see you there.

I was caught up in my own world,
lost in my own thoughts,
not noticing you
even when you were at your brightest,
when you were whole.

And now you are starting to fade again,
only to return
again
and again.

I wish I could do the same.

But each return
leaves me a little less whole.

Yet you return
every month
whole again.

I try.
But I never quite do.