Hand in hand we walk along this dusk bathed beach, reaching past sandcastles and starfish, narrowing beyond the furthest footprints our path has imprinted in the sand, bidding farewell to a sun now painting a twilight masterpiece on a wavering horizon, longing the cool evening’s embrace to caress us in sea breeze bliss, welcoming the tide’s white foam outlines silently approaching weathered dunes where we now pause, and as I lean in to kiss you I steal one more glimpse of nature’s panoramic beauty, for I know once our lips meet, *everything else will disappear