Unrelenting

She thought she had slept all along the night When on her eyes fell the moonlight She shivered to see the door was ajar Sea wind blew in ruffled her hair. The vacant bed yawned she was alone At this hour where he could be gone The night outside wore a thin starry gleam She inhaled the air still smelling of him. Then she smiled as she heard the distant roar Of waves breaking upon the unrelenting shore She turned aside in the fullness of a deep residing peace Certain his retracing footsteps in her sleep she wouldn’t miss.