When my eyes open
A man in white stares in disbelief
With his eyes open
He explains this is no relief
My father walks back and forth
He looks at my face
He doesn't see a trace
Of him in myself
My life goes on
Yet they don't see
The person my age
Describes me to be
A wife for a moment
A child for a second
Education at the helm
But all disappear in an instant
My son walks back and forth
Yet he has no clue
That I was once a man
Without the attitude
When my eyes close
My memory fades
With my eyes close
The black becomes a lighter shade
This poem was written to explain "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The first stanza is when Benjamin is first born and sees the doctor looking at Ben's appearance. The second portrays the father's feeling towards his newly born son and that he couldn't believe his eyes. The third stanza explains that not everyone in his town understands his age or his "curious case", while the fourth shows that later in life Benjamin had a wife, a son, and even a great education, but as he got younger it was gone in the blink of an eye. The fifth and sixth stanzas are mirrored off of the first and second. The fifth talks about Ben and his son having a relationship in which his son was treating him wrong (with an attitude). Finally, the sixth stanza describes Benjamin's life ending and, as I interpreted, him going to heaven in which the black turns into a lighter shade (the light of heaven).
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