She was dressed in white.... Somehow in that dark night it cast a gray shadow around her..... it was more like a halo... a sense of soberness.
She walked the short distance from the end of the road to the dock in slow silent steps... Somehow her pace accentuated the density of the night air... of the many unknown mysteries that lurked.
When she reached, the ship was ready to set sail.... There was nothing merry about the crew... or the passengers....
The moonlight played games on the waves..... It was the only light there... and it was everything to her.
He stood in the shadows... Even in that scant light she could see his face... Devoid of the usual smile... the usual glint in the eyes... He seemed a stranger.
He moved to the edge of the deck of that monster of a ship.... Why now?.... What was the use of words now?..... He dint speak.... Maybe he couldn't
She was silent.... She dint know why she was here.... to witness it all..... Yet, she knew she had to be here tonight... While he set sail.....
Was that a tear?.... Both didn't know.... but both cared, in their hearts....
His family.... They were too busy loading their bags and furniture..... And as she saw them.... her heart wrenched in pain....
The two of them were in a different space altogether... he on the deck and she down below in the dockyards....
The sky and the sea were in union.... the horizon was untraceable.... everything before them was blacked purple.... and there was the moonlight everywhere.... skimming over non-existent clouds and breaking into vibrant pearls on the crests of the waves.... and fading as silent as it could in the troughs....
It was playing..... and they were the players.....
It was painful.... yet she felt comforted now that he was there... near.....
Not a word they spoke.... They never had.....
It was soon time.....
The anchor was raised and pulled away......
The ship set sail.
She couldn't speak..... She wanted to cry out.... To shout, To ask him to never leave.... To plead... To get him back..... but she kept quiet... as always...
He didn't either......
Will he be back... someday???.....
The woman in white... the shadow of white in that light .... turned away.... she couldn't see him now.... now that he was going away..... maybe for...... forever......
When she turned back to look at the ship..... he was gone from the deck.....
She stood on the docks..... for how long she never knew.... but to her dawn seemed far away..... maybe years......
The clear sky clouded..... Will it raise a storm?...... She suddenly tensed, but then as she looked up, she realized, the skies hadn't clouded....
The clouds were in her heart.....
And.... over the seas.... the moonlight played....
And as the gray clouds in her heart blackened..... It started to rain.....
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