My reflection
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
Many are the times
I watch you
Much the times
I wonder
Madam Cook, our grammar teacher, says
It is you I am looking
Matching she claims we are
Even though she knows not the truth
Mystery engulfs me when I look at you
Identical they say we are
Me, however, I am very different
It is not I that I always gaze at
Maybe there is a copy of me there
Incidentally chiseled the wrong way
Mine right ear, eye and leg
It always has it patched on left
Must be terribly wrong, they, coz
I always initiate the move
Mimicking, you always do fine
Imagining you will be me!
Never!!!
© GIDRAF MWANGI
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Submitted by GIDRAF on May 22, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 571 |
| Words | 115 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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