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Setting/ Time line: Sailor Moon Season 1
Characters: Luna
Summary: Luna's reflections on waking up after 1000 years.
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A Sailor Moon Poem
by silverluna
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Luna: My Star
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Sleeping as long as I did, as we did,
it could be understood why
I didn't recognize her, the princess,
let alone any one of them . . . those
planet girls, their original faces
and we did sleep for a thousand years
Our sleep was not of beauties, of tales
on storytellers' lips (at least not then);
our sleep was a necessity,
the one assurance that we would carry on
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After that time I couldn't even remember
my white other half, or Mau, our homeland
so many years before our transformations
into cats, an honorable duty to become hosts
of our millennium's stars, of the Queen's princess herself
But I awoke with a purpose, destiny
sharp in my warm brown eyes; I remembered
myself and one important word, moon,
repeated, moon, moon, moon—
this was my star
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She was not what I expected, she did not,
at first, epitomize the lofty word; had Earth
living—fourteen years—made her soft,
made her unworthy of crowns, wands, thrones?
Starts were shaky, recognition faulty; magics
powerful (I was easily confused)
But she had mettle, she was worth it,
always, my moon, my star