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PRETTY LADY  

I don't have her eyes

I don't have her nose

I don't have her smile

But I am her

Or at least

She is who I want to be

They say we look a like

We have the same cheekbones

Those brown women legs

But I know 

My heart is what most closely resembles her  

I don't have her eyes

But I am her

Or at least I want to be her legacy

Our umbilical cord is eternal

She doesn't know it

But she is my sun

The reason for my orbit  

I don't have her nose

But I am her

The reincarnation of all she ever lost in herself

I never left her womb

Still a caterpillar 

Wanting to be like her

A butterfly  

I don't have her smile 

But I am her

Regal in her might

Ever graceful

She is a queen 

I

Am sole heir to her throne

And for this privilege

I love her  

I do not have her eyes

I do not have her nose

I do not have her smile

But I am her

And she is me  

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