Thus I See...

I saw you today in a crowded bus

After a long while as it passed me by on a lousy day

Yet when I set my eyes on you

It would last in me this time a while I knew

You walked me by the following day by the street with wide mirrors

And the day after that too

Sometimes at dusk and sometimes at dawn with bright hue

Your reflections looked different every day

With bright tint lipstick and some highlight

Don't worry about it my friends say

Time sways and never found again and in it, we play

Yet I sit looking at you

For hours these days staring at what had been and could be

How life has passed me

In the trivial things, I rejoiced and no longer can be

I looked at you several times when I was at a soiree

And again when I had to go to a fete, several times I did

I liked talking to you, seeing you laugh at different curves

Watching you while I spoke over the phone to rein my emotions while I crib

Yet I mislaid my darker eye corners, wrinkled face, covering it with whip

Every time I could, so you find me better

Yet what has me become,

I feel me in you and you in me, yet not much to when I see you

Why thus

I am me, my ever beloved, yet a stranger in the mirror.