====== JOURNAL ====== ' Talking 'to you... \\ beats walking the corridors \\ of my own misty mind;\\ each footstep an echo\\ cutting into silence... \\ like a single-note disturbance \\ that each seem to threaten \\ awakening of even more. \\ Fear arising then... \\ to creep alongside me, \\ attempting to summon \\ every sleeping monster-thought, \\ that I have tucked in. \\ So talking to you ...\\ my dearest stranger-friend \\ is gold-dust and more;\\ it carpets my corridor \\