TODAY I SAW YOU SOMEWHERE

Today I saw you somewhere,
and I almost didn't recognize you.
You had plucked your eyebrows,
and you were no longer the girl I loved, anymore.
You were no longer the girl I had climbed trees with,
that I had stifled snickers with
in a corner of your living room
where we had joked about things
before I was "mature."

How much I miss staring down
at those gorgeous cheeks
that I loved
that were yours
that were mine
to kiss
before you were a woman.
Copyright ©2007 Ashi Shadow 1/21/07

To Katie, I may only be a memory in her past.
But for me, there's a ghost of my past.
I hope the woman I loved is still alive, out there, happy with life.
I know that parts of her are still there.