Looking Back to Where the Sky Silences Us - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The Spanish poet's grandfather died in July 1936 , aged 23 .

His brother was dying, battling fatal lung disease.

He and his brother worked in the print shop of a friend from their village in Galicia , in northwest Spain , in the mid-1930s .

They had to hide amongst the few folds life left them, as did so many.

The moon holds for us a grand lesson: it’s merely a confidante to romantics, insomniacs, and mad philosophers.

The same is true of us, our bodies always in slow decay, heading toward destruction from the moment we’re born, aware that another gives us life.

And like the moon, without that light, we're nothing but darkness.