Katrina Kaye

sometimes I don’t recognize my reflection
you might take that as metaphor

                        but it’s not

and someday it will happen to you

change is unavoidable
time catches up to us all

                        eventually

transforming the shape of our features
pressing what was into what is
illuminating a spot or deepening a crease

it happens a little each day
until at some point you find yourself
seeing a stranger in the mirror

and thinking

                        what is it I have become?