She rises swollen and solemn,
an ancient sentinel carved in bone and pearl.
Half her face cloaked in shadow.
Half of her watching. Always watching.

Clouds crawl like bruises across her cheek.
The stars hold their breath.

Below, in a room where the curtains gape
like parted lips,
a couple performs for no one—
and everything.

The woman is already bare when he steps behind her,
his presence the only warning she needs.
Not a word is spoken.
They have long outgrown words.

She bends forward slowly,
palms splayed on cold windowpane,
the curve of her spine a deliberate shape—
offering, invitation, display.

She does not close the curtains.
She never has.

She knows the moon is there,
her cold eye feasting,
her silver tongue licking the glass
between sanctity and sin.

The man’s hands find her hips like he owns them.
Like he’s claimed them before.
Like he intends to again.

And he does.

He presses into her,
slow at first,
a cruel tease meant more for the sky than her.
She gasps, but not from surprise.

This is ritual.
This is worship with skin and sweat.

The moon’s light splits them in halves—
gleaming skin and long shadows,
her breast reflected against the window,
his hand gripping her throat as he moves inside her.

She opens her eyes. Looks into the night.
Her moans fog the glass.
She spreads wider.

She wants to be seen.

Not by a crowd.
Not by a man.

By the night itself.

By the dark goddess above who sees all,
who has watched civilizations fall and kings beg,
but pauses now to watch this—

a woman unraveling from the inside out
on the altar of her own windowsill.

He takes her deeper now,
fingers bruising her skin in devotion.
Their rhythm is not frantic.
It’s hungry. Intentional.
The kind of pace that says
he wants the moon to watch.
He wants the stars to weep.

She reaches back for him,
nails clawing into his thigh,
hips driving back like she’ll swallow him whole.

He fists her hair, yanks her up—
her back arched, her breasts glistening in lunar fire.
His teeth scrape her shoulder.
She bares her neck like prey
and smiles like a weapon.

The moon does not blink.

She watches the moment he spills into her
and whispers something only the glass hears.
Something she doesn’t need to answer.
Something she already knows.

After, the woman presses a kiss to the window.
Lets the sweat cool.
Lets the night see her ruin.

Lets the moon see
what they’ve become.

Because this is what the moon is for—

To witness.
To hunger.
To hold the shame and sanctity of desire
in the cradle of her cold, wide eye.

She sees.
And she remembers.

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