Welcome softness,

glide my skin with your breeze

Hello,
how are you?

It's been a while, 
So much life has been lived, 
held for a moment in the palm of the ocean 
and met through the sublime setting of the sun,

I watched the golden peach haze of the sun as it dipped into the waves,
I watched as the moon rounded and warmed into the brilliance of a renewing yellow,
the type that lingers between yellow and orange
only a while short enough to make you pay attention
and hold your gaze 
a moment longer
as if in reverence
of a thing that acknowledges in us 
the magic that understands back 

I know we don't speak of this magic often...

we glide through 
carelessly 
trusting it'll twirl us by
playfully 
forever,

in the waltz of one song to the next
we dance,
we laugh,
we cry,
we burst into a deep warmth
that melts the steel of the past day

and we wait
in silence...
in reverence ...
for the softness of the next day
for the gentlessness that recognises in us 
the warmth of all our past days 
coalescing and circling
into the warmth of all our new days

melting
us into a hue
that lingers 
in the music 
of the setting sun
and the rounding moon

unknown photographer

“You have the sun in you, and
the softness, and the clarity."

Anaïs Nin, from “The Four-Chambered Heart,” originally published c. 1950

Sunset of Li river, Guilin Shi, China - Photographer, unknown

“Some days it is warmth, some days it is tenderness, some days it is ache.”

- Daily Haiku on Love, Tyler Knott Gregson