Familiar Strangers

Sometimes

you feel like you know someone

even if you don't.

Even if you've never spoken to them,

sometimes the way they are

speaks to you.

Facial expressions, clothing,

a familiar face of someone else.

Strangers can give us a warmth

unaware.

October 6th, 2013

Laying on my bed
with knots in my back
enjoying the cool breeze
of the last warm day.

Yellow trees outside.
French verbs in my head.
Here I am
in the middle
of my 20th year of existence.

I bet I'll look back
and miss my youth.