Reflective thoughts

 

If I was a mirror I would be you

You would be you but I would be too.

Squidging your nose, blinking your eyes,

Curling your tongue and flexing your thighs,

Showing your teeth or licking your lips

I would be you down to the tips

Of your fingers and toes

Pouting your cheeks or rubbing your nose.

But Hey! Just a sec

Oh! What the heck

I couldn’t be you however I tried

Cos’ you are all you on the inside.

Inside your head, inside your heart,

Although we’re the same we’re really apart.

You have a soul, a life and your dreams

So when you are gone I know what it means

When you stop admiring your face

Each of us leaves to go to our place.

You to your life, me to nowhere

And when you have gone you do not care.

I patiently wait for you to return

To give me the life for which I do yearn

To allow me to laugh and to cry

And ask myself why

My life is dependent on you?

Do you not like something I do?

All of these thoughts race through my head

When I’m not with you I feel totally dead.

How can it be that once you are gone

I feel so alone, so woebegone?

You have a family, friends and a life

I feel like a sheath missing a knife.

But I hear a voice, maybe you’ve come? 

How utterly strange, I feel like your mum.