'Do you know love?' She asks, sheet over her legs. 'Wondering in the dark, stumbling on twigs and rocks, getting battered and bruised and still feeling the will to get up and go on.'
Smoke rises from her lips and hand. The cigarette lit on the bed, the ashes spread on the floor.
Water drips from my skin. I stand. I stare. Out of the window. Out of her. She's far and above. A translucent dream draped in a sheer blanked of reality while I live for the stars, the universe ahead.
'How do you invest? Do you connect?' I let bereavement take over. I feel numb. I suspect she feels the same.
'You struggle and you fight. It's all in the ups and the downs. It's asynchronous. Chaos. Running out of rhythm. Finding the rhythm together. There's no peace without war. There's no order without chaos. You gotta find your chaos.'
Still air rules the air. Silence. My mind wanders.
I'm the moon in the blank night sky. She's the sun that shines through a stormy cloud.
I look back at the bed. A sly smile, a focused stare. An invitation. And I'm willing. Open arms and open legs. Open heart. I release.





