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TWILIGHT PAUSE

By Vera Von Monika

Sunlight spills across the waves,
silvered waters stretching like a sigh.
I stand at the edge of everything,
the horizon pulling me
and pushing me back to you.

Your absence weighs like tide against my chest,
but I feel you in the spaces I can’t reach.
Every shadow bends toward memory,
every line of light
tracing the shape of your leaving.

The city sleeps behind,
shadows bending in slow, deliberate rhythm.
Time lingers between us,
thick with what we didn’t say,
what we only felt.

I reach for nothing
and find it full of you
warm, untouchable,
a fire restrained by glass.
The ocean carries it away,
but I keep the spark
burning quietly under my skin.

Even as the sun dips low,
casting long shadows across the boulevard,
I remain suspended,
a body of longing and weight,
caught between what was
and the pull of this endless twilight hour.

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