Familiar Stranger

Familiar stranger,
strangely familiar,
the pattern seem to fit when you look,
at it one by one,
yet the picture as a whole,
seems to be so dissonant.
There is a missing link.
There is some unnameable chink.
Its gone.
But left behind a hole,
that can't be filled.
For there was a delicate barrier,
that made strangers friends
and the unfamiliar, familiar.
Now its gone,
leaving behind a stranger
who was once familiar,
But is now just a face
with a smile that reminds me
of a stranger
with whom I was once familiar.