To a friend afar.

Do I know you?

Or are you just a random stranger

who’s eye I’ve caught?

Is there some message

behind your mystery?

Some clue to be sought?

It is like a curious gaze,

held just long enough,

then it slips away.

Have we met before,

some time ago?

Some other day?

Within and away

Beneath the skin,

it silently slips away,

slips within.

Sheathed within an illusion’s haze,

a labyrinth leading nowhere,

tangling trails, an endless maze.

From behind a shadow, a beckoning smile,

softly soothing and warm,

if only for a while.