Surprisingly Unfamiliar

Listening to wave upon wave 
Sifting through each syllable
searching for the slightest hint of recognition

  My faded memory conspires against my will

  Who are you?
You're a stranger to my ears
What deception is this?

  My mind screams with disappointment
Who is this interloper?
This man pretending to be you?
 
 Why is my memory being deceived? 
This is all so unexpected
Has the last several months been a dream?
  
Is the man I remember gone?
Can he have evolved so much?
Have you grown into someone else?
  
Well...I guess...I'm not the same...
Not the same as when we were...
Younger, more vibrant and nieve.

  No matter what I've become
In your mind, in your memories
What was I? And now?

  And maybe too, It's my mind that is deceiver?
That created a vision untrue?

  You are wholly new to me,
Should I have not expected that?
How could you possibly be the same?

  Am I not the same?
What were your expectations?
Did I meet them or...

 Are you as puzzled as I?
Are you disappointed in me?
The now me? The old me?

  What folly is it to not expect
These natural changes
These evolutions?

  Our past selves are memories
Time to let that go? How?
I love who you were...

  At least the memory of who you were
Were you ever what I remember?
Was he just a young girls musings?

  I never really knew, 
Back then I didn't take the time
To talk to you, not really

  So now in this time
This man I've come to love
To regard with the highest esteem

  Who shares my thoughts,
My troubles,
my demons

  This man who makes me want to live,
Explore and thrive,
Whom I cherish and adore...
 
 A stranger? Certainly not!
You are my trusted and faithful friend.
You are still who you were.

 (My mind races to find a solution,
For without a resolution,
I will declare a revolution,
against this memories pollution.)

  I resolve, you must still be you,
A great gift from God,
My most trusted ally.