Doppelganger

For a minute, I thought I knew you,

Seen you somewhere long ago,

But you hide when you see me,

as if I would clutch at your eyes,

break open your thin air.

So you run away, into the shadows

where you've made your home.

Like a sweet lost child, I call to you,

'I won't hurt you anymore,

No one will hurt you anymore.'

But you refuse to meet my stare,

watching your pure, blazing face,

so familiar like lines on a palm once.

I know I look old to you,

and the old don't know what innocence means.

The burden of their lives run them down,

like the shadows that we lose in the shade.

I'm in the shade, and you just a shadow.

Won't you come to me once again?

Won't you love me once more?

I wait for you in the garden,

and you hide in the pool.

As the sun goes down,

and the stars pop up,

the shadows are lost.

You hide under the waves,

and I watch and envy you,

sitting at the shore,

always too scared to get in.