Glenday, John: Stranger

Today, I am a new man,
a stranger in the town that bore me.
 
How simple it is to become a ghost -
just one word, one gesture, and we slip
 
through the fretwork of other people’s lives
as easily as water through a stone.
 
Just for today, if I were to pass myself in the street
I wouldn’t even raise my hat, or say hello.