Love Poem: Someone That Looked Like You
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Written by: Jo Mykle Hofseth

Someone That Looked Like You

I saw her on the tram

I saw you on the tram

It wasn’t you

It was someone that looked like you

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Looked a lot like you

The color of her hair

The way she moved

Her face, but not her nose

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She stepped on, went off

Before my tram stop

I had seen my surgeon

Not my day; that day

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I saw her on the tram; again

It wasn’t you

Looked so like you

So close; but not you

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I loved you then

You left; closed the door

I believed the door was closed shut

I believed I had walked away; free of you

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She stepped on, went off

Before my tram stop

I had seen my surgeon that day

From sundown to sunrise; that day

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I looked around; on the tram

Sitting there alone

Thinking of you

Thinking:

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Do I turn around

Do I have to turn my head

Must I turn around; now

She sure looked a lot like you