The moon, the glorious moon. Its incandescent, lunar glow illuminates all below, but does so without taking centre stage the way its showy daytime counterpart, the sun, tends to.
Although its light is evidently bright, it also comes with a distant quality. The surrounding blackness of the night sky gives the impression that this great and noble figure of the solar system stands very much on its own despite the flecks of stars accompanying it.
Anyone who looks up at the night sky often enough recognizes that those stars are not always visible. They are fickle in ways the constant moon with all its phases is not. The moon remains proudly, resolutely up in the night sky, and continues shining on despite the wavering ways of the flippant stars.
