orange_cat raze before the night could nullify my sight, you made your presence known. i turned my head to find your ochre coat and the standing mirrors of your eyes moving into mine. no fear to be found there. you walked the pitted path that led you to my home, retracing your steps in reverse, and i followed you into almost total darkness. only the limbless lights that line our street were willing to bite back the black and wound it into wordless compliance. i watched you bend your body into a poem no page could hold and call it leaving. if we never meet again, know that i loved you for as long as our brief lives saw fit to intersect. 250907 what's it to you? who go blather from