So Different Now

Isn't strange how things always change?

Just when you think you have it all figured out

With a simple exchange; a turn of the page

Everything you know is turned inside-out.

I look at you now but I just can't see

That person that I used to know back when

Inseparable friends, you and me

So different now, because that was then



Now I see that you've taken a turn for the worst

Taking dumb chances without weighing the dangers

In everything, now, you jump in head first

Turning close friends into complete strangers

I'm telling you this because I worry for you

These mistakes you've made, you're making again

Repeating the past while you're starting anew

So different now, when that was then



I'm asking you, simply, to look around

And tell me if you approve of your change

Now we sit in darkness, not making a sound

But, in honesty, this all seems rather strange

Please just remember the fun days we had

So somehow we can go back to then

Making everything good out of bad

So 'different now' won't happen again.

Poem to a Blind Man

I tell myself

I'm used to this

When you look at me

but you don't see

You listen to me

but you don't hear

When I call out

for you.

Will you ever

feel

like

me?

And stop being

Blind

Blind to something

so obvious

Until then

I'll wait for that day

That day when you will

See.