Night Rendezvous

A quick sketch of an idea for a painting of this experience

I love walking at night, particularly after it has been raining.  This night walk was particularly special and as such I really want to share it with the pub at dVerse open link night for this week, but it also seemed so appropriate for Gooseberry Garden's theme of 'new lives'.  Please, grab your favourite beverage, read here and  then head on over to the links for some wonderful poems and insights.

Night Rendezvous

Day’s tension fading, sure step will quicken

Farewell to the harsh glare of light

Rainstorm is passing, petrichor singing

Lemon gums perfume the night

Starlight is gleaming, a clean moon now waxing

The last clouds scurry away

Earth smiles, listening, timelessly soaking

Eve blooms from rain-cleansed day

Sheoaks are whistling, the path leading deeper

Away from the wide gravel drive

Lost leaves are sighing, caressing my footfall

Each sense intensely alive

A silhouette shimmers, forgotten oasis

Glimpsed on the night-darkened sand

Smiling, I greet him, with velvet he answers,

Blows softly and nuzzles my hand

He nibbles my sleeve, leans close in the darkness

My fingers melt into his mane

His scent fills my memory, echoes through decades

Sighing a timeless refrain

I am there, as a child, desperate for friendship

A subconscious search to be free

Strength, reassurance, gleams in his soft eye,

Waters the parched land I’d flee

I blink, pale moon pulls me back to the present

Her clarity pierces time’s hall

Risen as equal, grown from that lost child

Who died to that fierce inner call

In softening star glow, scented with damp soil

Companionable horse by my side

On moon’s bright ellipse my future seems poised

I am calm – no need now to hide

Communing in silence, horse satin, moon silver

The truth stands before me undressed

I see through those years, my loving Creator

Has wrought a new life that is blessed.