Translucent orbs, like droplets of sorrowful ambition, descend the embrace of a lachrymose sky. With each assault against the 16th century edifice, the legion of woe bursts, pelting against the glass, like the abandoned pebbles of a lost lover.
Her heel, absorbed in the care of Manolo Blahnik, makes peace with the pavement as the colossal door closes at her back. The minions of a gray elysium will not subside and so she unsheathes her umbrella. Each globule’s breach into the disaccord of the cobblestones gives the appearance of motion, as though the Piazza della Republica were breathing.
Hallucination.
His vision, distorted by the water. The assault is absorbed into the wool fibers of his black coat, though his white collared shirt is soaked through to his chest. The crimson tie is loosened around his neck and now he braces himself, leaning his elbow against the Ponte. The exposed hands of Franck Muller beckon at his wrist as an uncomfortable reminder of surrendered divinity.
The gale howls through the storied corridors, screaming through streets the Medici once tread. The queues of shoppes whose large glass windows sparkle with lucid gems and precious metals, dimly light the moistened promenade leading toward the acclaimed arch. Shapeless figures and indiscernible faces swoon in her wake, as she climbs the bejeweled boulevard toward the drenched figure in the distance, only discernable by his red tie billowing in the wind, like a banner of atonement for sins still in progress.
And then, without warning…
She embraces him.
She… embraces him.
She presses his Bodhi…
His body…
Into her own. The pressure causes her to exhale, the release of her breath rising pointedly above the Arno.
He…
Sullen and overwrought, disengages to behold her grace…
Her face.
Life. Love. Innocence. Beauty.
Worth every treasure in the Uffizi.
They inhale. They exhale.
The body above and the body below.
And the all encompassing within.
They stand on the Ponte Vecchio, acquiesced to it all.
As the rain continues to fall.
how wonderful
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