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///// Nightdwellers 'Beginning Line' Challenge (April) ///// Write a piece of literature with the beginning line ‘Twilight, and the ocean breaks…’ Tag it #nightdwellers #beginningline. http://www.facebook.com/groups/NightdwellersWrites/
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Jessi

The night I walked into the ocean.

Twilight, and the ocean breaks.

The sun and moon

kiss one another "hello",

before letting go~

delaying no goodbyes.

Soft glowing light fades in half,

giving into the wane;

while my tongue turns red,

touching my lips through translucent greens.

Bottled for one, it goes down

creating my own painted canvas;

I find myself drenched like Drenthe-

out, on the three lands;

where a "little painter fellow"

bid his troubled lover, farewell.

The oceans legend sage, beckons me;

salt burns and peels me down-

undressed, and stripped

of my regretful goodbyes.

I turn to drop;

to walk out;

to plunge~

and I do ....

and it's breathtaking.

Unprotected in the night;

all alone, I tumble.

The ominous cold shadows, biting into me; aware of the suffocating waves,

and my failures- they seem so limitless;

so deep, that they

seem to take root of my feet.

Coarse debris delivers pieces of

valediction that forms a bladed line;

flowing through me,

in a crystal awakening.

A crushing blue force~

scraping it all away; and

lastly, relinquishing me.

While twilight turns out the night,

everything becomes dark~

and clear;

and quiet ....

I stand up.

I walk out of the ocean ....

It was exhausting to love you.

And now,

I have exhausted all goodbyes.

~Jessi(image and poem)

#nightdwellers

#beginningline

#freeverse

I am 21 years or older.