She thought she had slept all along the night
When on her eyes fell the moonlight
She shivered to see the door was ajar
Sea wind blew in ruffled her hair.

The vacant bed yawned she was alone
At this hour where he could be gone
The night outside wore a thin starry gleam
She inhaled the air still smelling of him.

Then she smiled as she heard the distant roar
Of waves breaking upon the unrelenting shore
She turned aside in the fullness of a deep residing peace
Certain his retracing footsteps in her sleep she wouldn’t miss.