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Night Wanderer
The night breathes me in.
Measuring me with probing gusts
Of icy wind. It knows me.
I feel the silence. It fills the air
With suspense, the darkness
Interrupted by gleaming street lights
Piercing the nothingness
With a creeping awareness
I am watched.
Perhaps by the sandman,
Leaving his post to keep a wary eye
on a wandering soul.
Or some nocturnal Goddess, carrying the moon on her back,
And guarding the gates of heaven with her breath.
I let the night breath me in.
I feel whole for a moment,
Purged by the calm surrender.
The absolute solitude
Swallows me completely. As I am.
Not asking why I cry,
It holds me, cradles me.
I am safe in the dark curtain.
My secrets are guarded by the hush of a breeze.
The night breathes me in, and I breathe it out,
Together we walk, allied by our loss.
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