He's been gone a very long time now...

Then came a moment of renaissance,
I looked up - you again are there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that`s beautiful and rare.


         - A Magic Moment I Remember
          Alexander Pushkin


...but our gazes locked across the lanes of traffic on a winter day and I was once again reminded of the beautiful Mastiff that once shared my life and still shares my heart. 
I know, soft and grainy but captured through the window of our truck as he passed by, eyes locked on me the whole time.