Recap:
The thunder rumbled again and this time so did my consciousness. I felt as numb as that day but this time I felt alone. The loneliness hadn't crept in like love, no, it had walked in the room while love had snuck out. It had waited as I had awakened and found love gone, the scent barely even in the air and I wondered what it would take for the pain to disappear. It had listened and though I had refused many times to embrace it, I did. So it kept me company.
So I let it fall, I let the gown glide down my skin, it's silk soft, and misleading that maybe life was lavish and enough with riches. Maybe it was and I just didn't know how to spend it well in a life of family, of power, and of money. I let it leave a trail as it slid off my body, baptizing the ground with it and the note of no return on the bed placed like a God.
