4310 Expectations
Expectations are premeditated;
nothing more than resentments weighted
by our fears and dark suspicions.
Meet a traveler open minded
even if she's from unknown traditions,
so to her worth you won't be blinded.

2121 He Will Look Back
She walks far enough behind him the sprung branch will not lash her cheek.
Far enough he can't hear her steps. He will look back, she knows,
but she follows anyway. He has walked fire and sung the heart from Hades
to bring her to the upper lands, but that's not the way this story goes:
she'll follow until he turns, she's not one of those fickle ladies,
and then, one step short, she'll fade from his sight without critique.