Moonlight. Beams reflecting down to earth. And to reveal what to me? More of the concrete pathways created by predecessors. Ones most likely void of mortal breath now. Ones most likely gone to the wind, the earth and the stars.
But what I did not expect the moonlight to reveal was her. This thing, this creature of such beauty she could not be of anything but ethereal form. There was no way that such a creation was not wrought from God's own hand. Eyes of light sapphire, hair of spun sunlight. Even in this place of reflections she cast her own light. This was not a mere borrowing of essence. This was her own.
"Hello." Her greeting was so full of steel, as if it were meant for me. As if we weren't strangers passing in the night.
"Hello." I returned. The coquettish smile flashed and I returned it. I felt suddenly enamored, attached. Addicted. This woman had hypnotized me. My hand in hers was so perfect, as if it were meant for hers and hers alone. And I fell.
The night began to swirl around me. I was lost in her eyes and on the road. I drove and drove and track after track on the radio fell into the darkness much like our first touch did. Every touch of hers sent me further into that utter bliss. And finally when our lips met, fire erupted through my veins. We exploded into our own light that moment. Nothing shone brighter than we did. Nothing out in that world of creatures, a world man had barely touched. Our final destination that night I imagined, not watching the stars directly, but reflected in her eyes.
"The sun rises soon." The truth was hardly worth noting.
"Let it rise. Let it set. We will always have this night. It will never end for us." I proclaimed. Those words parted us as she moved away from me. Even in leaving she was perfect. A goddess of a creature that I was wrong about before. No God could fathom this, could imagine this much beauty.
"It is not so simple." Tears hung like dew drops in her eyes as she returned to my gaze. Alarmed, I shot to her side, to hold her. To bring her close to me. I feared I'd lose her, just then. To something greater than us.
"What is it my darling? My love?"
"I belong to the night. I belong to world of frights, of spooks. Of goblins and creatures beyond your mind to manage." This set my curiosity going! What does she say? Such crazy things to drive me away?
"Then I will follow you into this realm. This world of frights and spooks!"
"No! You mustn't say such things! My beautiful beautiful Byron. You must promise me you'll stay here! You'll let this night end, and bleed into day! That you'll return to the city! Promise me!"
I pulled her into my bosom and kissed her deeper than before. Deeper than I imagined. My breath caught not on the warmth of her but the cold. The cold musty deep of the grave in her lungs. I did not let my surprise betray me. I pulled from her slowly to promise something I wasn't sure I'd be able to keep.
"I promise my love, my Lindsey" The steps she bore were the worst I'd seen anyone take. They were the final steps away from me. "But in my heart, this night will not end."
"Nor in mine, my love." And with the first sunbeam of the morning, she bore away. She faded as night had faded. My heart raced faster than it had in our first embraced. It threatened to leap from me as the last of her faded from my vision. I collapsed to my knees as the realization swept over me. So hard, so strong. Tears filled my eyes.
"My darling Lindsey, my dear dear dead Lindsey. I will not let this night end. You are my love, my life." I cried out. "Never, will I forget!"
I returned to town as fast as I could, knowing that the moon would never again reveal what it had revealed that night. And a part of me was glad of that.
"I Don't Want This Night To End"- Luke Bryan.
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