Lament

Written by Deanna Nguyen
Photographed by Ksenia Pro
Model: Allison Eguchi

Winds of a moon-soaked night,

carry her voice

as gentle as the caresses

of a mother cradling

her newborn child.

Rising and falling

like the ocean waves,

her song tickles the ears

of those who are lost

in a familiar loneliness.

Never dissipating,

the mystic lyrics

seep into the chasms

of a memory yet known

but always present.

She shares a world

so secret, so elusive

that searching for it

dissolves the edges

of a waking dream.

Her story

shall echo and resonate

across unreached waters,

to the one destined

to end with her.