Our man looks in the mirror. This piece talking about this moment: "the look." He fails to understand the features of his face and imagine the days when his wife was watching them. He can not be that it is now capable only his mirror to observe and judge. Before it was not so. First there was her and judgments, although negative, were less painful of these "contemporary eyes" terrible and that point to its "look and recognize."
Song in 1994 titled "Watching you" dedicated to one of the first loves of the author.