Let The Moonlight Lie

by: Deniz Ozturk

Let the Moonlight Lie explores the tenderness of loving something whose illusions you can already see through. The moonlight is a beautiful deceiver, casting its magnificent glow over everything it touches and making the world appear more beautiful than it is. The figure has long stopped believing its lies, yet she still finds tenderness in listening to them. Rather than exposing what she already knows, she chooses a compassionate silence, as if unwilling to wound something she still loves. There is a quiet sadness in her surrender to its beauty, a lingering wish that perhaps the moonlight could have been what it claimed to be. She lets it shine, lets it lie, and lets herself love it for one more night, without ever losing sight of the morning, when she knows she will wake to a different world.