(M) Darkness settles gently over us. (F) Like the tide... ... (M) Cold air finds our skin. (F) We don't pull away. ... (M) Clouds drift across the sky, carried by the wind. (F) Nothing asks to stay. ... (M) Fragile warmth slips away. Fragile hope scattered like sand. (F) Still, your hand finds mine. ... (M) The sea keeps breathing. Waves erase what we never could. (F) Some things don't need saving. ... (M) The dunes whisper their old language. Servants of the tides. (F) We always understood the silence. ... (M) Carefully we surrender. Carefully we lean into the night. (F) Carefully we remain. ... (M) Grains of sand fall through the hourglass, keeping time without asking why. (F) Time never learned our names. ... (M) We don't speak. (F) The wind already knows our words. ... (M) Night never asks to stay. (F) It simply does. ... (M) Somewhere between the tide, the wind and our breathing, (F) we forgot to be afraid. ... (M) In the end... (F) ...only a memory remains. (M + F) And somehow... it was enough.
