LIKE A DARK WIND IN THE NIGHT

I rode the night sky

Like a dark wind

And the perfume of my hair

Fell upon the shore

To the wonderment of scavengers

Night birds echoed my song

And sailors stirred in their sleep

Lured half-awake

By the lilt of its melody

The moon sought to find me

But searched the night in vain

While distant stars mirrored back

The bits of sunlight I had caught

And sprinkled, like fairy dust,

On to the darkened sea

I played amid the harbor fogs,

The dews and the mists,

Reveling in their mystery

Welcoming their loneliness

Like a dark wind

I rode the night sky

Leaving memory, like driftwood,

Abandoned on the sand