The Pasts Caught Up With Me Poem by alan brown

I look into a window
but i never see
the person that i was
Because i'm only me,

I wander endlessly in my life
beguiled by what I see
But in the mirror
I see a different face
is that really me
.
I'v changed a lot
my memory's bad
surly that can't be me
I remember a very young looking boy
the one I cannot see
.
Is life so hard and lonely
that I cant remember the past
and the face I see cannot be me
as I lived it in the past

I look into the water
and a swan I do not see
As I am now old and decrepit
as the pasts caught up with me