The dark blue has faded, the black veil of night drawing across the sky. The luminous moon rises from the horizon. This is the mid-autumn moon. When people feast their eyes on the distinct scenes－the moon has turned the night scene outside into a picture postcard, yet there is a thin distressed feeling in my heart.
I expected this festival in my childhood, because I could eat the moon cake and other special delicious dishes. And that day the whole family members got together and had a jolly time.
Now even in my adulthood, I still expect mid-autumn day, still hope for the moon cake, and still look forward to the lively atmosphere. But it stays far away from me like a dream, which could not be touched forever.
Family reunion has been the most expected kind of happiness during mid-autumn festival since ancient time in China. Not only so many poems are composed of that kind of happiness, but also there exist regrets due to the lack of family reunions.
Under the expansive sky, there are so many families that can’t enjoy the reunions at this special time, and so many sad people that are far away from their native shore, and so many lives and family cannot be perfectly reunited like the full mid-autumn moon. I am just in this mood longing for family celebration of mid-autumn festival. But I have to stay in school, some hundred miles away from my parents, preparing for my next IELTS. My only wish is that the moon may pass my missing message to my family that I will try my best to do well in my study.
Mid-autumn moon is the spontaneous law, but happy subcelestial life should be cherished by ourselves. May everyone enjoy their own happiness at this mid-autumn day.
My Mid-autumn day, Next Door To Heaven