Night falls and it isn’t what you would expect.
Night falls to join us in reminiscing in our teenaged favorite songs. Twiddling your thumbs over an empty page, it all comes back to you with that one song coming on.

Night falls and we’re walking far from home, headphones snug in our ears.
Do you remember our brazen bravery?
Foolish then, yes, stroking the night sky, chasing stars that rose too high.
Never falling, we would watch them hand in hand, on empty benches laughing the night into dawn.

Walking back to your house, everyone was still sleeping.
The bunnies hopped about, fur soaking in morning dew.
We laughed, over tired, calling them, “buttons” and laughing harder.
Your key was under the porch swing and we snuck in with ease, crawling into bed and playing evanscence or tatu quietly, soon sleeping, too.

I miss the fearlessness.

Nightfall meant wisdom, meant freedom and a break from the typical, the crowds, and the summer heat.

Atypical in our steps, pressing simple boundaries to rebel.

With us, night blanketed our meager attempts to be bold.

Do you remember what night fall meant then?

12 responses to “Night Fall”

  1. Woodsy Avatar
    Woodsy

    I remember walls –
    snake walls, that would curl around the parties other people seemed to be having,
    keeping the laughter distant.
    So I’d keep walking, into the song that was pounding my ears…
    into the beat, matching the rhythm of my feet…
    looking for something that’d redeem the craziness that sweeps over us
    when all we have is a blast of song, a melody, fast-woven through our restlessness.
    Part of me is still walking,
    still scared to stop and let something else win.

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    1. BrittnyLee Avatar
      BrittnyLee

      So awesome.
      I walked to find the rhythum.
      The rhythum being my two feet stepping.
      One foot in front of the other, walking to find refuge in the darkness.
      My rhythum came with music and laughter, and voices blending with my own.
      Solitary silence and snow fall.
      Crowded streets and empty back alleys.
      My rhythum found me every time I took a step forward.

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    2. BrittnyLee Avatar
      BrittnyLee

      *rhythm typo haha

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  2. Woodsy Avatar
    Woodsy

    The more we walk them, the more the sidewalks become our home. Between places, where we can live in journeys that might otherwise be lost on their destinations.

    Enjoying the poetic duet thingies.

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    1. BrittnyLee Avatar
      BrittnyLee

      Lol me too. This is my nerdy bread and butter haha.

      The sidewalks learn our names and the pressure of our footsteps.
      Stepping onward to where we want to be.
      It’s all a mystery, afterall.
      Reality.

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  3. Woodsy Avatar
    Woodsy

    I retraced a few the other day, rescuing creatures that wander there –
    restless things, long-since lost from my soul.

    These days, I’m scared far more by warm little rooms, where people tell me who and what to be, than by anything these margin-scribbled beasts could ever conjure.

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    1. BrittnyLee Avatar
      BrittnyLee

      Retracing, meandering, getting lost in some copse of trees.
      Finding what’s been lost in a forgotten puddle.
      A smile chasing away the ghost of a frown, remembering things that I’ve forgotten, perhaps deamed forbidden.
      Opening my eyes and jumping feet first into the puddle, the memories rushed back and I felt released.

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  4. Woodsy Avatar
    Woodsy

    Some days the rain falls.
    Some days it won’t.
    Some days it never seems to stop.

    Some days it’s all about the puddle.

    (There’s a book here… of words and puddles and unsaid things, waiting to be jumped in)

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    1. BrittnyLee Avatar
      BrittnyLee

      Seriously there is.

      The puddles grow with time,
      and overhydrated earth not drinking in anymore.
      Left overs, the water filling up for us.
      Jumping and splashing we imagine, all our cares are flushed away.
      Laughing and dripping with muddy water, we’re becoming alive again.

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  5. PoojaG Avatar
    PoojaG

    Really well written!

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    1. BrittnyLee Avatar
      BrittnyLee

      Thank you so much Pooja!!! That means a lot coming from you girl 🙂

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      1. PoojaG Avatar
        PoojaG

        You’re welcome!!

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