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 I'd recognize you in the streets
even though I've only seen you once,
(in my dream last night),
on posters.
I want you,
even though you're twice my age,
and even though you have a chubby face and wild black hair,
and are introverted like me.
I don't even know you.
That makes me want you more.
(In my dream last night, we met and you loved me.
We kissed, and you smiled. So did I.)
Your words, beautiful words,
like someone I know,
like your songs.
You're beautiful.
I want you.
I want to be you.
Not you but like you.
Everything you do is perfect even though I don't know you.
You're my hero.
I want to be you.
I want you.
15 year old girls want you.
You're better than me,
More poetic, more lovely than I.
I'm ugly, and you want me.
Maybe you're not who you are.
Maybe you're who I want you to be.
Maybe that's why I only know you in my dreams.
 
 
-by Ahmed Samir