my eyes burn with unshed tears, and my chest aches with unsaid words.
tonight, i am powerful. tonight, i am an expanse of moonlit earth. today, i am grace. because tonight, i am with the one i love.
he is smiling down at me with salt streaks on his cheeks, sliding down his neck. he is a sorrowful kind of happy. i know that because tonight, our hearts are one and i feel as he feels. i feel the marks he has left on my life and i feel bitterness. i feel as if i have been wronged somehow, because this cannot be all the time we have. it has been an eternity and it has not been enough.
i want to scream out at the stars that the world does not deserve his beautiful smile dripping with mist and moonlight. i want to cry that i am not ready to let it go.
our hands touch and oceans churn inside my soul. it is an embrace but it is more, because it is bound by the gravity of the knowledge that this is our last embrace, our final touch.
and then he is gone.
and i am left, treasuring a ghost.
