Papers scatter 'round the halls,

Sticking to him as he spins and twirls

Haunted by his own memories

of when he was a girl

Scattered papers, all of pictures

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Skirts, necklaces, dresses, and bows

All girly things he wore in distant memories

of when he was a girl

A scanty drawing flying past catches the boys attention

Of a young stick girl and her mother

Bows earrings and skirts decorate the barely drawn women

Both dawned in high-heeled slippers

Easily he catches the drawing

and holds it closer to his face

To wonder who the little girl is

With a dead name he used to use

Scattered papers stop and still

As he stops his frantic twisting spirals

Gazing at the older woman he knew

Whom he once called his mother.