Let's start again

If I had known you then,
I would never have left you
so much alone

And I know that you've waited
all these years, peeking out
from behind the curtain,
half eager, half afraid

Please don't cry, I never really lost you,
for it was your eyes I looked through
under life's scathing stare,
trying to brazen it out with
too many black clothes,
too much khol

I hope you won't be dissappointed,
for we are so much the same;
I have not yet learned confidence
or how to make friends,
I'm still self-concious and mute
on the verges of parties

So I think you softly, softly
you come, with faun steps
and harebell eyes, my constant twin,
but tenderer, purer, sweeter,
with a child's unsullied belief
in starting again