Ruin

On the day that you came, the mist at first light lay heavily on the surface of the sea, an edgeless barrier of rose, lilac and emerald swirls that forged secrets between the mouth of the cave and the world far beyond. Where it lapped and bunted against the rock, water formed in the glacier scars and weather-beaten boils, before dropping in a slow shower onto my shoulders, the tops of my toes and the floor of the hollow.