Lillies and Ghosts

Short Hair

Wow! That really suits you!

You look so much older.

I never noticed how pretty you eyes were.

It felt like I lost a limb,

I still reach back behind my neck to feel it.

I was so proud of it and it's honestly sad how something so important to me could be so expendable.

You've been looking a lot more tired lately.

Are you okay?

I just can't get used to how...different you look.

When I look in the mirror, I cannot see what I used to.

Still, it's more familiar than the face that once replaced it.

I swear I can still feel it against my back,

For a moment certainty pressing against me.

Then, I remember, it was only my imagination.

My long hair was beautiful.

It took so long to grow it.

How odd, it was so easy to cut it,

A quick clip and it was gone.

How different,

How much older I must seem.

But, how weird, that I'm still,

Me.