After.

I lie awake to midnight sounds

of laughing waves

that mock the passing of lonely times.

You come and go at will

and need no key

for the door is

and always has been

open.

We share the water silvered with moonlight

and walk unclothed and unashamed

in our private world filled with stars

and moon and sun.

It is almost happiness

Almost complete

Almost complimentary

Almost love,

Almost………