Someone

She dreamed of someone who couldn't quite be placed. 

Someone who flitted through her dreams and left moonlight on her pillow. 

Someone who peeked through her bedroom window and left handprints on the glass. 

A face that could be seen in everyone. 
With a familiar wink of an eye or twitch of the nose. 

Someone who drew secret messages on the walls of her mind 
and left her to decode them. 

Someone with eyes that seemed to track her wherever she went.

She dreamed of someone from her past life. 

Someone who couldn't quite be placed.
 

Geri

MD

18 years old

More by Geri

  • What Will It Take?

    At parties I sit quiet and calculate my words

    I avoid the eyes of guys and stare at my phone. 

    After all that hiding, 

    dissatisfaction feels like heartburn, 

  • Inevitable

    crying over a simple email 

    the lasts build a lump in my throat 

    last time beaming onstage 

    signing yearbooks 

    wearing a stiff blue skirt 

  • Battle Cries

    One girl’s lanky frame against the dark turf field,

    lit up by fluorescent lights 

    She saunters toward the building 

    holding another girl’s hand