days ago, I met you. So many years that I've seen you ... were just as you remember, as if you had not grown all along: straight hair, very bright, tied with a fork on one side of the forehead, small face, with a sweet expression, like sadness, that began in eyes filled with black lashes and just a short smile.
I had the impression that surprised you do not see me, they really took time knowing that at any moment I might appear as if you had been in the same place forever just so I could find. I felt a twinge in your heart, not pain, wasted overjoyed, because so many years without knowing you have deprived me of the joy of living in peace.
When I came to you I had the urge to hug you and welcome you in my body, but before I asked you if you were happy.
Are you happy?
In doing so I cried, because a girl is asked if she's happy, girls prefer going outside to play or braids with wool.
Are you happy?
I got the question as if it had bounced off a mirror, as if the air me back my own doubts. And before she went to answer
wondering ... How heal? How do I heal?
small I do not know, learn to do it, but preferred not to say anything. I took your hand and promised to never leave you alone, so at least if we find happiness came the two together.
Now you always carry with me, I should not leave there knowing that you did not like being alone.
Illustration: Lisa Hurwitz