I shook hands with you and wondered:
Friend, or Foe?

We talk among beautiful skin,
laugh at songs of the macabre,
are left still by the grace
of the same goddess.

I don't know how I knew you.

Was it the song on your lips?
The tremble of your pulse?
Fearless Excitment?
Forgotten Emotion?

How you wet my eyes with your song!
Knowing the shake once rang in my own throat.

How I shudder from that remembered Emotion!
And all the sensation floods back within me.

I shook your hand, unaware
Then raised it away in caution....
Only to wrap it around my kindred's shoulder.
To a new friend, no longer forgotten.