By Helena 
Date: 18 November 1998

when love fades

when I think of you
I think of the night we walked through the dawn
shivering with cold, the misty beauty of the river
and the presence of each other

the words you said covered me in a glowing cloud,
your eyes shone like stars that helped me
navigate the way to your heart.

how long ago that seems,
yet I could count the days.

and now, your eyes are stones at the bottom of a cloudy pool
swimming through it in the hope of finding you I lose my way, 
and become marooned in the shallows of friendship