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Turning Night

 
Negligence, in the way  
you wear that gown  
As if heavy, you let it slide  
cascading, like a pink-shadowed pool  
gathering in ripples, at your feet  
This beginning commotion  
to our mighty evening  
 
Sunlight holds, trying to mold  
its embrace around your sides  
But I step between  
stealing its reflection  
Causing it to leave with nothing  
but it's own embarrassed blushing  
 
You're mine  
Day can never reach  
the scattered evening like I  
When I cause the stars to ignite  
Imploding under the shattered force  
of your wild eyes  
 
Negligence, in the way  
your hair vines, rivulets streaming  
Like black water curling  
around my finger-branches  
I weave a passage, as  
moonbeams bend through  
our turning night  
 
Hands holding wrists;  
Knuckles drum-tapping  
irregular, with our beating hearts  
The walls absorb your flailing  
Their hide conceals little valleys  
Where you climbed, in peaks  
higher into the night  
 
Negligence, in the way  
we unbraid our arms  
Legs fail, into the shallow shadows  
of the ebbing white-water linen  
As if a current, fading from us  
Softly falling aside  
 
We lay, as if in the damp wrinkles  
of a river-shore  
that poured us back out  
yet kept our sacrifices  
 
The grinning moon, smiles  
and wraps us in natural joy  
We, now as two clouds  
drifting into haziness  
within an overturned night.  
 
~~~
Written by Styxian
Published | Edited 25th Sep 2024
Author's Note
Negligence is used as a play on negligee, at the beginning anyway.  
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