though i hardly knew you i had seen your face, your smile, the way your eyes sparkled when a child laughed, i knew what lay behind them, i thought...there was a hardness there, born of a thousand sunsets alone, a resolution to endure until God gave you rest, a place immutable but sharp as a knife where you looked out at the scenery and waited...you were not afraid until i told you your past, from your eyes, and you were not afraid after i told you your future, and you were unafraid as you told me your present, from your eyes, promising violence i could never hope to answer if i betrayed your unspoken rules, and i did as i was bid, and so you rode away, never looking back...i thought i had known you...i know nothing