TANGO IN TWILIGHT - Shadow Dance Between Two

In the half-light of Kiwi dusk, we dance with our shadows—four dark partners 
on the kitchen wall. Intimate relationships become shadow laboratories. Your 
anger hooks into my guilt, my fear strikes at your pride. "Your shadow grabs 
my throat, my darkness claws your back." The tango captures shadow dynamics 
perfectly—controlled passion, partners mirroring and resisting. We thought 
we were learning to waltz with demons, but instead "we're falling through 
layers of who we thought we were."

Dark ambient folk tango. Intimate, confrontational, transformative.

From "Breakfast with Jung: Chapter 2 - The Shadow"

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[Jung smiles gently]

Tango in Twilight

In the half-light of a Kiwi dusk,
we dance, you and I, with our shadows—
four dark partners on the kitchen wall,
each one hungry for what we deny.

Your anger, a pohutukawa flame,
licks at the edges of my guilt.
My fear, coiled like a black snake,
strikes at the throat of your pride.

We’ve locked them in bone-closets,
fed them scraps of our pretending,
but tonight they break their locks,
demanding their turn to lead.

Your shadow grabs my throat,
my darkness claws your back.
In this twilight tango, we bleed
truths we’ve tried to forget.

The dance floor tilts with secrets—
your jealousy and my shame
whirl like ravens through the room,
their wings slick with knowing.

Then something shifts: we surrender
to the Shadow music, our darkness
leading us through its ancient steps
until the dance floor starts to burn.

We thought we were learning to waltz
with our demons, to make peace
with our darker selves, but watch—
as my shadow swallows your light,
as your darkness drinks my dawn,
we’re not dancing anymore but falling
through layers of who we thought we were,
our bones remembering older rhythms.

Come morning, we’ll find our clothes
empty on the floor, our skins shed
like snake years, while our shadows
dance on without us, wearing our names
like borrowed jewellery, teaching us
how little we knew of darkness,
how much of us was twilight all along


Tango in Twilight

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Tango in Twilight

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