perplexion

The Christmas vacation never fails to make me totally forget typical things. Like posting. I suppose this will slacken some after I graduate and actually have a steady job. Anyway, soon to come will also be movie reviews...not necessarily of new movies, but just of movies in general. I'm taking a film class, and we have to watch movies. Two thumbs up.

Anyway, to prove that I have not completely neglected doing any kind of writing, I'd like to share with you a new something I wrote. It's based on something that I think we all occasionally do. At the very least, I do it about once every couple months or so. I'll walk by a mirror, then stop and go back because a stranger was looking out at me.

I'll stop and study it for a while, observe the differences. Think yet again that my friends are odd for thinking I look anything like the gorgeous Liv Tyler as Arwen in Lord of the Rings. Then move on and do whatever task I had been doing before I was distracted. Anyway, here's the something.

Perplexion

I walk by
See the face
Pause to look
Stop to gape

Unfamiliar
Unbeknownst
Curious
And queer

Whose is it
Who does it fit
I know it not
I know it not

It looks back
Doesn’t talk
It gazes out
In my eyes

Almost familiar
Half forgotten
I know that gaze
Yet I don’t

Recognition
Suddenly comes
It is my face
It is my face

I study it
It is mine
Not as I thought
Or remembered

Strange and tired
Are the eyes
Experience
New wisdom

I turn away
Now knowing
I have changed
I have changed

-enna