They watched,

        Warily as cats

         Defending disputed territory.

But watched devotedly, not with malice in the manner of cats.

                          A word, a movement,

             By one attracted the other.

Their eyes would meet, a smile, a nod exchange, never

A word confirming what was felt.

                            So, time passed,

Not swiftly, not slowly, but as it does; passed, unbound

                            By affirmation.

               And love that should have been was like

Moon shadows which subtly fall, are seen, felt, known

                And, sadly, do not last.