I have watched from a distance.
Adoring each moment I viewed you.
My Friendship growing, but was it more then friends?
Years of silence without your presence.
Years of my own searching for what was before me
I didn't know it lay in you..

I grew.. some lessons harder then others.
But I grew, always remembering the kind words
you spoke...
Always remember a my youth in your presence.
I grew harder edges then I had realized.
My resolve hardening..
I grew weary, yet somehow I held on.

You returned, and your guidance renewed
my weary soul, my strength returned.
I remembered a time when I felt unsure..
I am not that young woman any longer..
I have grown, and found you waiting

Lady Zephy Duses

Penned by my hand on the 7th of Khepary, in the year 114 MA.