Dark secrets

 

I have learned

to love the way

night descends

fast and early

at this time of year,

cloaking trees, hedges and fields

hiding streams and rivers

blurring edges

disguising shapes

swallowing buildings

 

and concealing

all our dark

and dangerous

secrets.

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© the author writing as Romantic Dominant

Posted first three years ago, but … well, it is that time of year, and there are sometimes dark secrets.

Art by Victoria Selbach