Girl In The Mirror

We exchange stares

For it is only I who can

See right through the layers

Of concealed scars alike

That we both share

And I keep falling

And then drowning in

Deeply and passionately

Again too quickly out of love

With that familiar face

That I often envisage

As I pass by

The broken spotted mirror

Sometimes we speak

Usually late at nights

Of feigned assurances

In incomplete sentences

But mostly in silence

Of unfilled blanks

And of awkward pauses

We do find our comfort

I've seen her baby toes

The one sitting on my face

Also resembles her nose

I've seen her crawl,

I've seen her fall,

I've seen her grow

A bit distant,

And a lot more tall

I've seen her gain

I've felt her pain

Over year after year

Into her eyes I stare

Two pathways leading

Into a dreamy universe

Of thousand gleaming stars

Soon dimmed into a void

And now trapped

Behind solid metal bars

Living in the present

To me she became

A ghost from the past

A feeling unsettling

Creeps under my skin

I've known her little

I've known her none.

We were once close

Perhaps,

I've let the knot loose

To build from the ashes

I leave her with a promise

To stand by her smiles

To share all her cries

The next time when

I pass by the mirror

And fall for her once more

I'll love her soul

I'll love her whole.

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