The He Who Stares Back

(a mirror) A wrinkled face An old man The he who stares back The eyes of a thousand wars A deprived man confined in a concentration camp For only three years The escapee with the supposed malaria A hero of the war The Too malnutritioned Now blind just for us This new added adjustment He then found love A nurse a teacher The she the one and only A sixty year hold That forever embedded his heart He Who then left a seventeen year old girl Who never had a place in his heart Though instead she only knew The tootsie rolls given with his smiles The girl only five An the old man…. The he who stares back…..