J. Thomas Walker

Who is it I see there?
There in the mirror.
Mirror of my image.
Image of a boy becoming a man.
Man, what a piece of work is he?
He whom I do not know.
Know what I think?
Think I shall hunt him.
Him who eludes me, now.
Now round and round I go.
Go to the edge of the world.
World where he is not.
Not there but elsewhere.
Elsewhere in my thought.
Thought like night.
Night to be lost in.
In me he is.
Is who he will be.
Be there waiting.
Waiting for me.
Me - - and I am who?