Night.

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Time ticks as twilight's smile fades. Night crawls through the trees, sweeping through the leaves. Wrapping her cold lengthy arm around my shoulder, giving a brief squeeze. I rest my head in the nook of her neck. Tears drip and pool in her collarbone. My breaths slow to a rhythmic beat. Tossing her shawl of stars over me, she tucks Polaris beneath my chin. I close my eyes and behind my lids, his silhouette burns. She whispers in my ear "let it down my dear, slowly let it down." Riddle with fissures, joints of concrete futilely attempt to contain the tsunami. Curtains embedded in bedrock collapse into the rough sea below. Pillars of travertine crumble, heaving agony into the open air. Night strokes and traces my tense brow. Inflaming and unlocking what is within. She repeats her daedal, digging in deeper with each round, she releases another ripple from the epicenter, quickening her pace. Whitecaps become numerous in my Iris. An unfettered howl erupts, echoing. I allow her to consume me, rocking round swaddling me in her sable tippit. I tip my head back to see her face. She pours serenity into empty sockets, laying me down in a mossy loam.