I knew when I first saw you, that steady gaze, looking so deeply, always searching, trying to find a meaning you knew was there, that forever eluded your grasp.

And it was calm, that night, and you walking so softly, looking always outwards, settling others, as your calm spread. You spend your energy, leaving a dark emptiness in your soul. Forever you watched, yearning, gazing into our souls.

I knew then, as with a fluttering beat, the steady procession of my heart gave a lurch, a drum beating out an erratic tattoo.

I caught you looking at me, as I had so often found my gaze in your direction, unsettled unless you were there. A calmnes returned to me, a strange thing.. It brought something silent and steady, a touch of the unknown.. a fragment of something foreign came to me.

The fragment sank, hid within me. It waits for release.

Forever now, my hopes of untainted reality, a colourless view, are quashed. The bias has been set. I can never be sure of truth now. I wait only for the unveiling of fate.

Things fall into place... a new landslide has been started, and plummeting down the mountain, I wait for stability to return.

Speak ye softly, into the night.