It is the way an evening retreats, a reluctant pose that one normally finds when a loved one turns and walks away...
She was just there, just a fine minute ago...she was engulfed in your arms, her hair blowing in the beach breeze, the scent of the tide and her shampoo floating into you and it was against the small crashing of waves in their constant punishment upon the beach...
She was just there, you could feel the slight weight of her leaning against you, the slight pressure of her breasts upon your chest, the taste of her mouth and the breath in your ear...words couldn't be whispered, it was too loud near the water...rather she would have to put her mouth almost upon you, murmuring the words that you did not want to hear. A goodbye...a departure.
Goodbye...goodnight. Seemingly the same...goodbye sun...goodnight moon.
But in her departure there was no smear across the sky with her, it was just a vanishing...she looked back once, turned and left. It was just under a minute.
At least the sky gave the courtesy of lingering...faintly...taking its time...loitering...spreading its departure across colors.
Her goodbye was abrupt...not slow at all...despite their attempts to fend it off...she unmelted from him, slowly becoming unencumbered...slowly exiting, her arms from around him...locked then unlocked...against him then not against him, slowly letting her hands fall down his arms until their fingers grazed each other and with a slight quick tight squeeze they became undocked...no longer one.
A few steps and she was away from him...getting darker in the view...smaller...until gone...while the night sky was fighting with the oranges of the sunset...way above them.
He couldn't quite see her...she was a shape, a walk that was familiar, even while moving away from him...and he didn't notice the colors in the air because whatever he could describe as stunning...incandescent...was slowly walking away from him, falling into the darkness leaving a much brighter image in his mind even as the evening roared in winds and tides and skies.
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