Haunted
I see her in my dreams
The little girl who reaches out to me
Little Angel with those pretty eyes and dirty cheeks
I see her around corners
In daydreams
I saw her just the other day across the street
She fades away
Leaving trails behind
I knew her once
Can't remember her name
There was a time
A time so vague
That little girl makes me think
But then it all goes blank
She disappears in a blink
That little girl so familiar
"Oh no! little girl I'm here!" I yell
As I hear her screams in my sleep
She runs away without a trace
until another day
I waited for awhile thinking she had finally gotten tired
Then She came to me once more
This time with a smile
Her words were
"Thank you for healing"
"I was you all the while"
"Now our pain can reside in exile"
She ran to me, and I held her close.
'Don’t ever let go,' she whispered so low.
"Of you?" I ask
"No" she replied "never let go of our beautiful soul"
And then vanishes into nothingness
Tired and finally free
That little girl was once me
About this poem
Healing your inner child
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Written on 2020
Submitted by sharona.reeves81 on February 11, 2025
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| Scheme | XA X X X B X XX XXC X CD XX XB X XE DXEE XXX XX AA |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,010 |
| Words | 220 |
| Stanzas | 18 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2 |
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