People at Night

Nights on the Beach

Hot summer air gives way to cool darkness,

Stars pierce through the lights of the city,

Catching nights on the beach...

The caravan arrives to make camp,

Racing to set down sanctuary,

Left in the dust of night...

Sailing through the abyss,

Of time ringing past ancient stars,

While echoes of a faint light mirror clapping hands...

I sit mesmerized by the vastness of the ocean,

Branded by the white fire of the moon,

Two old friends whose relationship I struggle to contemplate...

The bustle of an ocean front property is silenced by nightfall,

The fading illuminations of background buildings,

Matched by the oldest light known to man...

Chaos forms deep in the throws of darkness,

Under the whispers of night,

And screams of man...

The campfire takes light from a ghost's reflection,

While we sleep under shadowed stars with the lady of the night,

Writhing the veil of darkness into a tangled twist...

The world waits behind us,

Smooth like a rhapsody,

As our layer waits on you...