i went for a walk today and as i went

i went for a walk today and as I went by a path so familiar,
i paused blusteringly content to lift my hat and warmly wave
to a far away friend. when this i did, there came exhaling a
frostily wind, my face abrushed with lightning strokes
bestowing memories long since sealed thirty years ago…t’was
only then and not before then only i thought of that day
quite identical to when i went for a walk as a young man
then and lifted my hat, extending high my hand just to
nighly wave to a friend i espied standing small o’er the
great distance affined…it was not the memory of the
familiar then, which made me feel today so strange to lift
my hat; rather, it was the factual me of yesteryear that
appeared so utterly, so recognizably, wholly avowed. like
the long lost twin of the me of the now, the wind brought
fresh the smell of the then…i went for a walk today and as
i went by a path so familiar, i discovered blissfully content
that the who i was feels no different than the who i became. i
suspect most people safe harbor these uncommon familiarities,
anchored trenchant in the deepest, deep of our profundities,
reminding us we are and always will be the very same…