Mirror Me

That girl in my reflection

looks a lot like me

but we're different on the inside

because unlike her, I'm free.

free to come

and free to go,

free to pick flowers,

free to eat snow

free to call friends,

to swim at the pool,

free to read books,

and pass notes at school.

But she has to appear

whenever I say,

and I wonder what she does

when I go away!

Ever since Alice,

I've willed myself to go

through to the other side,

but how I'll never know.