Constance

It's eerie when the people that you knew
Are still the same - relationships intact,
Attitudes constant, nothing really new,
Continuous in thought, concern, and act -
And you have changed. It was so long ago,
Yet all I could have thought might have occurred
Has happened. Yes, they've changed a bit I know,
But not substantially. Had I inferred
Their futures from that past I would have been
Correct in each particular unchanged.
It is a strange place to now find them in,
And makes me feel so powerfully estranged
From where I was. Their continuity
Emphasizes all the change in me.