It began as a whisper,
a thought too small to hold.
A vague shadow,
hiding in the corners of my heart.

I did not seek it,
but it found me.
Every glance,every word
made the doubt grow into shape,
into a face.

And then it was there.
No longer to deny,
the truth I had known
before I dared to see it.

The suspicion became a fire,
and I,
I could only burn.