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Yesterday's Stranger
We catch eyes again
And I smile
Then you smile
I turn away.
You're not there
Again.
The person I smiled to
Was a complete stranger.
Were you even there before?
Did I know you truly then?
Are you the same person
I knew yesterday?
No.
No, and no.
You didn't give me time
To blink
Then you went away.
I've lost you
In an empty fight.
I want you in that smile
The cheerful glow
That radiates you.
I look back at you
Tilt my head to one side
Tracing the man
I knew yesterday.
And even though I know
I can't find him
I carry on
Talking and laughing
As if I've known you forever.
Hoping that you'll come back
Tomorrow
Knowing that you won't.
Knowing that you're really
Truly
Gone.
somehow I'm forced to pretend
That the man I knew is still there
Maybe it's because
I'm still wishing he'd come back.
You know,
I wish I really knew you
When I met you yesterday.
Because then I'd have memories
When that stranger went away.
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Note: yet another former muse poem. check out its twin, Different.