There once was a girl playing in a yard,

I met her from a far spot, but my feet couldn’t move toward her,

They took a step forward, and two backward,

I felt I knew her, once I heard her sound,

It was so familiar to me, that sound could never be misheard.

Who was she?

Why did she really look like me?

Is this all real-all what I see?

Or am I just stuck in a reverie?

I saw her playing with her favourite toy,

Playing with it on the swing, her happiness at that moment, nothing could destroy,

It was a tiny little yellow elephant, which always brought her joy,

Wait! I once had that exact old little toy!

Is not this my past being once more employed?

Who was she?

Why did she really look like me?

Is this all real-all what I see?

Or am I just stuck in a reverie?

She looked at me, waving with her little hands,

As if the ghost of each other, was each one of us,

As if we were wandering in two different worlds,

Me in the past and she in the future of hers,

If it is not a dream, I hope I can vanish on these old lands..

Who was she?

Why did she really look like me?

Is this all real-all what I see?

Or am I just stuck in a reverie?

I tried to get closer, and from my perplexity to detach,

To move toward her, and some reminiscences from the past to catch,

To sneak into a missed time, and a happy memory to snatch,

To figure out who she was, and her little toy to approach..

I got closer to her, and suddenly she vanished, as I touched her hands..

Who was she?

Why did she really look like me?

Is this all real-all what I see?

Or am I just stuck in a reverie?

She vanished as if she turned into ashes, or tuned into smoke,

That joined the clouds, after all what was buried in my memory, she evoked..

It seems I was just dreaming, but I never woke up,

I think I know who she was now, and her mystery, I uncloaked,

All she wanted is to remind me of her, as I wanted her to get back..

She was only my little ME,

That’s why she looked really like me,

It was not real-all what I was meant to see,

It seems I was stuck and still stuck in a reverie…

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Written by : Noor Safaa.