Afterglow

When the light shifts

When it changes hues

When shadows chase each other on the walls and disappear behind nooks and crannies

When the night becomes the bayonet, piercing and stabbing and gutting and shooting for the targets that move within visible bounds

When the light sees the moon and crave for the wind

When the scent in the night carries lilac to the gloom

In stillness how they creep and unify into moonlight

And the light continues to shift

And I see your skin, radiant, softly glowing in starlight bathed

Before I slumber

When the light shifts

And slowly fades away