There was a girl who looked like me She followed me close by.
If someone hurt or saddened us She hid away to cry
She weighed as heavy as a rock But couldn’t quite be seen
She sometimes almost went away But reappeared in dreams
She often spoke in voices Quite like those I knew so well
The tag team of complicit pain Who cast their icy spell
We look inside the mirror Thinking we know who we see
But now I know that who I was Was not always just me
We see the version of ourselves That we accept as truth
Honed out of mixed perspectives Thrust upon on since our youth
The saddest waste of life is what We all can sometimes do
To trust the doppelganger who is walking next to you
Go back and hold your own hand In the places, times and hours
When your wondrous thoughts and feelings were swamped by other powers
Refocus where you stand today Right now and ever more
The person who can walk alone A giant through the door
Without the weight of what was then And who you never were
But all that is ahead for you For you, but most of all for her.
LW