But cruel day, so welawey the stounde!

Gan for to aproche, as they by signes knewe,

For whiche hem thoughte felen dethes wounde;

So wo was hem, that changen gan hir hewe

And day they goonnen to dispyse al newe,

Calling it traytour, envyous, and worse,

And bitterly the dayes light they curse

Geoffrey Chaucer

The night has been long, and its wide darkness dies on the horizon where morning light sprouts out of a growing spark. The world seems to pause in a standstill, silently crossing the frontier of a new date of hopelessness to be revealed.

In ephemeral screens and airwaves I scroll scattered notes about this threshold hour that writes your name. This is the aubade hour, of unwanted farewell until the time turns compassionate again. Daily toil may be cruel and deceivingly long and nightly rest surely short, but they shall certainly have the soft touch of brief words.

The only fair hour has your name and the sun rising over your sky-tainting blush. This is the hour when arms held gently the bodies that made them one to each other a warm looking glass, and talk endlessly, one to each other a beautiful mind, with voices so unique to build a bridge of echoing feedback across their silence.

In your unkind absence the words flow through this bridge, until a tiresome numbness freezes the mind and words can only paint the same landscapes in song, dwell in them for a while, while they wait for a propitious day. In the mean-time we might try to keep the day-cursing frowns out of our faithful faces, and in cold morning-dew we may wash the bitterness of our minds away.