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For Liani

on a winter's night we trudged
the deserted beach
wordlessly
side by side, you and i
neither friends
nor strangers
freezing, sporadic, the wind
leisurely, steady, our tread

silence
both awkward and tranquil
stretched on
blended unobtrusively with
the wind
enveloping our two figures
like the bodies that mute
the souls within

oh
but are we more so
in the dark?