THE REVENANT  

"Ha ha!" laughed the photo
in a black and white voice
with the very ghost of me


gazing at the future
I had
now become


it was hard to accept
that this young scallywag was
someone I used to be


indeed
he is a stranger
to the me of now


finding it difficult
to get back
into his head


he was eager
to talk but I wasn't
returning him to the book

he had fallen
out of after
he had been lost for years