Once Upon a Face

I once wore a younger man’s smile My hair was worn in a different shade. And dressed in clothes of a different style. --There was something else-- But the memories begin to fade. Come and sit with me awhile Pass the time along with ease I have all these memories on file: Files vast as the seas. How time has flown before me! But I cannot tell what all has changed. I have stayed, who I have always been But the man who gazes back at me in my reflection is different I do not know if he has always been me Or if it was my earlier appearance was to disappear But do not dismay For I have always been this way My habits and faults Forever until time haults