Monday, December 1, 2008

Gimo

Rust red sauna hugging the shore
Steam emanating as the door swings aside
Bodies dart across the slick dock with a cautious step
Icy water envelops them as screams echo
Across the glossy waters

The fiery red glow of the midnight sun
Recedes below the horizon
The reflection of pink and purple
Are mirrored by this body of water

As the colours vanish a lone row boat
Glides noiselessly through the lake
Twilight settles as the night
Slides gracefully into the next day

Looming creatures brush the
Lake's surface with leafy limbs
A yellow glow spills into the
Shimmering pool from the sauna behind me
Soon the flood of light ceases and I find myself alone

Dark waves slap softly at the dock
Swaying it in a cradling lull
The lake, active in the light of day,
Now slumbering in night's silence

I gaze at the velvet sky with specks of stars
Like the watching eyes of angels
I turn walk back as the Man in the Moon
Whispers his "gud natt" to sleeping
Gimo

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