She walks down through the shadows just before the sky turns black

Beside the water's edge she lets the robe fall down her back

Wades into the silky dusk light off the old boat shack

Crawling through the shallows, the earth crumbles in her hands

She cracks the chilly stillness as she glides away from land

Out towards the middle she lets her lungs expand

No thoughts about

No burning doubt

Floating

Out into the flow

Carried on the sound

Someday she may know

Tonight she is unbound

She listens to the movement deep within the wooded hills

Never felt so alive, never felt so still

She lets her head fall back and the world be what it will

All the weight

Dissipates

Floating

She walks up through the shadows now, follows the well-worn tracks

Peer in through the kitchen window, feels the water still on her back

A little light spills out the door, she left it open just a crack