When the Nights Grew Too Long

The nights are too long now.

There was a time when the nights were short, over with too soon. There was a time when the morning came long before we were ready to meet it.

Those were the nights when we came together and stayed in each other’s arms as though clinging together against the approaching day. A day that would tear us apart from each other to swim alone through its rough seas, until we could be together that night again.

The time came, though, as it always does, when we no longer cam...