Shifting Perception

Written in: Stockholm, Sweden
Date: February 19, 2009
Photo Credit: I. Roman

When I look,
through this window
above the street level,
people look like ants,
cars like toys,
concrete structures like playfull installations.
The huge billboard signs
look small enough to put in my bag.
Like a book.

Life observed
in constant motion.
While I sit still.
Unnerved.
Looking from above
to the outside.

I turn my head
inside.
And everything is back.
To proportion.
Strange, these
shifts in perception.

A man staring at me
from across the table.
I, looking down.
Unmoved.
Now, shifting perception
away from the gaze.
To something else.