Nights Like These

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Dusk falls
and the city unfurls
its secret self —
a map unspooling
under the kiss
of stars and streetlight.

A piano plays dreamily
from a window above,
notes drifting
like petals in the wind.

The glow of
dappled city lights
dances over your hair,
turning stray tendrils
a fiery auburn hue.

Stories unfold
from the fabric of night.
Whispers pirouette
off your lips
and into my ear.

I could stay here forever,
by the river
and its carpet of stars,
watching the whiskey sunset
cascade over the horizon,
and feeling your soft gaze
slowly unmask me.