who is this man

i've slept with

so many years

this stranger

come between us

seen everyday

stumbling with

every breath

every step

a tragic comedy

still playing with

each life encountered

sliding downhill

all the while

toward some

distant landscape

feeling the

stranger

in himself

grasping at

straws to

balance

the unbalanced

never seeing

the reflection

in the mirror

01/06/2008