Change

I look out at the world

It has not changed for me

Things change

But it’s around me

The years of time that pass

I see friends come and go

Relationships get better or worse

Everything does change

But I feel

In my mind

That I haven’t changed at all

Everything is exactly the same

I never know when things will change

Or why I am even thinking about it now

Why not a year ago

Or even a week

My mind seems to stay the same

I learn my subjects

But past that point

There is nothing different

I look back at myself and wonder

What would it have been like

If something changed then

Would I still write now

Would I still be sitting here

Writing a free verse poem

Writing about change

But those are not the worlds I am in

You can’t look out into the open world

And wish for different lives

Because if you do that

You are held by the chains of your real life

I have had to learn this myself

When I think about life

I see no change

But through the eyes of others, there is

I look out at the world

And don’t see a change in me

Things change

But it’s those around me

Who see