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Created on: March 13, 2010
Tonight is the night...
No, not you. Stop looking at me. I've left better than you.
I'm waiting for something much better to come into view.
Taller, brighter someone to deliver me from this smoldering hell.
Walk through the door and I will know, it will be easy to tell.
We will talk, first with our eyes, then with our minds. Then...
Tonight is the night...
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