Hey people of Steem!
The work that follows is FICTION- al prose. It's a different style for me, and I love the way the imagery turned out. Hope you enjoy!
There were stars that night, millions of them. Endless, countless glittering lights to illuminate the beach where we lay. We saw pictures take shape between them, and some fell from the sky to their reflections in the waves. So was the beauty of the night: surrounding and encompassing, rather then distant. While the stars typically burn with an untouchable brilliance, on this night we were graced by their tangible presence. We were lucky to exist among them, to lay gritty on the sand between the sky and dazzled ocean waves.
There was even a certain exhilaration in the sensation of icy water rushing over our feet and under our backs,seeping into the beach beneath us. When the chill began to climb from the sand and into my skin I rolled over onto you, burying my face in the hollow beneath your neck as your arms found their natural place around my waist. I remember feeling amazement that your fingers tapped the small of my back to the allegro rhythm of heart beats I heard through your chest, the same tempo I imagined my own heart set to.
“I want this forever,” you murmured, not realizing that your gentle tremor of breath sent my world spinning on an entirely dizzying axis. As the statement reverberated through my mind, you flipped my body gently over and held your own a whisper above it. No separation of breeze blew between us as your lips brushed my forehead, my cheeks, my lips. “I’m home here,” spoken into my heart as your lips grazed my chest. I felt singularly alive, intoxicated with the radiance of the sky and the magnitude of the sea, with our intensity of passion and its extension into the beauty of this place. Your electric touch, and closing provocative words: “There’s something about this that won’t let me go, some piece of my heart and soul so embedded in you I don’t think I’ll ever get it back. Marry me, so I can spend every moment of the rest of my life not wanting it mine, but ours.”