Could you please elaborate on the meaning of this particular line, "If anyone understood loneliness, the moon would"? By the way, is it one of the standard literary devices writers use? Later, WANDERING HER BEACH, she recited her favorite Amanda Hamilton poem. "Fading moon, follow My footsteps Through light unbroken By land shadows, And share my senses That feel the cool Shoulders of silence. Only you know How one side of a moment Is stretched by loneliness For miles To the other edge, And how much sky Is in on breath When time slides backward From the sand." If anyone understood loneliness, the moon would. Drifting back to the predictable cycles of tadpoles and the ballet of fireflies, Kya burrowed deeper into the wordless wilderness. Nature seemed the only stone that would not slip midstream.