I will always remember that night.
The first night we noticed how dark the evenings were getting,
After the late sunny evenings we had so loved.
Singing out loud in your car,
So comfortable with the enclosed space
And dark roads.

I noticed you looking at me,
And I will never forget the look in your eyes,
That so unsettled me,
The way you looked as if you had only just seen me
For the first time.

The confused expression you wore
As if I was someone new.
A land you had just stumbled across,
A landscape undiscovered
In the guise of the familiar.

What was it you saw that night?
My soul?
My heart?
Or merely the stranger in my well known skin?
I will never forget,
And I will never enquire.