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# hide and seek
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- Published: 2014-06-26T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-06T23:14:21.000Z
- Author: Anitha Krishnan
- Tags: poetry

I look for her in midnight stars, on moonlight beams,  
In lazy afternoons and blazing twilights,  
In the melody of singing larks and gurgling streams,  
In the deep, heavy silence of the mountains

I seek her in colourful marbles and seashells by the shore,  
In the sand castles she once built with her tiny hands,  
In the fairy tales she read and the stories she wrote,  
In all the secret places she imagined and discovered,  
In another world, in another lifetime

I look for her in memories past  
My own and of all those who knew her then  
Those who remember her childhood pranks and mischiefs

Like a whirlwind, everything transformed by her touch  
The pitter-patter of her tiny feet  
Naughty handprints now fading on the wall

I flip through the black and white photographs in family albums  
Memories glued together in chronological order  
But everyone remembers her in their own different ways

Sometimes I see her in my thoughts and my dreams  
But I remember her differently too  
Once proud like the flames leaping skywards  
Now like the dying embers of a festive bonfire  
The little girl I once used to be  
But have long ago lost somewhere inside of me