The Stranger that I knew

His eyes disarms you the moment he sets them on you

Rekindling a fire that you never knew

His look makes you fall under his spell

Spell bound in this fantasy world well

His smile and relaxed look

Holds you in a hook you can’t unhook

Where he is the king,

 And I his subject

You exchange contacts and what lingers about him is

That smile, that greeting, that compliment

As you blush yourself silly

As you sweat your brow wet

As words escape your lips

As your legs fidget as he speaks to you

He is the stranger that I knew

But felt strange then because I knew

We can only be the strangers

Across the room

Across the bus

Across the halls

The stranger and I knew

That’s the furthest it could get

Oh, were we wrong

One word led to another

Sentences

Paragraphs

A call

A laugh

And the stranger is no more

We travel to new strange lands

I lead he follows,

He leads I follow

We walk

We trod on

One step

Two

Three

Ten

Fifteen

It gets murkier and bushy as we go on

I don’t understand my path

I get lost in the trail

I stop

Abruptly

The stranger is estranged

The stranger I knew

Is shocked

Why have you stopped?

We are not there yet

You knew the path as we embarked on it

Why now?

After all the…

And the…

The stranger that I knew

Walked away

As swiftly as he came

As I walked

Hoping to find my way back

To the one

Who I am not a stranger to