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The Sunset

February 14, 2023
By writing-oni SILVER, Aurora, Illinois
writing-oni SILVER, Aurora, Illinois
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Favorite Quote:
"In the end, we only regret risks we didn't take"<br /> -Lewis Carrol


She came to me at the brink of the eve and the end of the day, her heat just before the cold. Though my eyes could not see, I could forever picture her as I wandered to our meeting. 

The sounds of the meadows, with crickets, slowly warming up for their moonlit serenade.

 Her warm and crisp fingers, gilded in metallic rings. 

The taste of her very being, rejuvenating and calming brought against my lips. 

More my mind wandered, the closer she tasted akin to wine and raspberries, light and dark combined as equals.

She played with my blindfold, twirling the knot until it became undone, giggling like a symphony to my ears.

Her soft hair curled around my back and above my shoulders as she was pulled into the sky away from my embrace, her taste gone once more. 

 I saw my love for a second, the daughter of night and day, and like that, I was alone with the stars once more. 


The author's comments:

I wrote this piece originally as a assignment, yet found myself diving deeper into the role of the blind woman. How she must have felt, to be both cursed and blessed to fall in love with something so beautiful, yet to love her for everything but what she could see. Thank you for reading and please go check out some of my other poems coming soon!

-A grateful oni


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