Line Of Passing Faces

If you stand alone
and separate
to watch and think
for long enough
it seems

most everyone you ever knew
will pass you by;

there will be strangers,
unblinking ghosts
for sure,
but even numbers there
will shrink in time.

The line of passing faces
slowly grows familiar.
How do I know?
I saw yours, again,
today...
© 26 March 2007, I.D. Carswell