Washed away...

It had been a long and tiring day, not very different from a lot of other days in the past few months. She walked through the usual route, probably crossing paths with the usual people that she saw every other day. Mothers with their young children in tow, eighteen year olds with other eighteen year olds, old men returning from their day's work and even older women taking their late evening strolls while their younger family members walk ahead of them.
She gazed up at the sky to check for the moon. It was probably the romantic idealist in her that made her look up every once in a while. It was there, nearly round, bright and getting brighter as the sky was turning darker. A gentle smile spread across her face whenever she saw that white circle of borrowed light in the sky.
She got home and sat down in the couch for a while, just catching her breath as she slowly sipped on a glass of orange juice. She was still thinking of the same thing, the same thing she thought of every day. The same thing that was at the back of her mind, no matter what she did or where she went. She decided that a shower would be a good idea, to kill the day's stress and hopefully buy her mind some peace. She took her clothes off hastily, went in and turned on the shower. The water was strong, warm and steady. She turned around to let the warm stream caress the nape of her neck. It was exactly how she always liked it. And then suddenly, all at once, it came from within. As the water smothered her from behind, a warm stream came gushing out of her tired eyes. She couldn't stop and she worried that she may never be able to completely let go. Her heart was wanting what strangely time had decided she could not have. She was battling what she knew at some level to be inevitable and yet, it was a battle she wanted to win. There was however, a strange sense of comfort as she was engulfed by the warmth. The water came down, consistently strong and steady and did well to conceal her tearful sorrow. As the water washed her tears away, she hoped that her pain could be washed away just as quickly.