TRADING PLACES by Becky Hemsley 2023

"TRADING PLACES"
by Becky Hemsley 2023

If one day we swapped places

I was you and you were me

I wonder what it is that both of us

Would actually see

I wonder if you’d notice

How your smile lights up your face

How when you walk into a room

You brighten up the place

I wonder if you’d see the way

You always make the time

For those who seek you out because

You’re patient and you’re kind

And maybe I would notice

How I always stand my ground

And how I lift up those I love

When they are lost or down

Perhaps I’d notice how

I’m quite content all by myself

And how I’m always there for others

When they ask for help

And if you felt your patience

And if you could see your smile

If I could help myself

And feel my kindness for a while

Then maybe we would understand

We cannot be defined

By all that we fixate on

In our mirrors and our minds

Yes, if we both swapped places

And had someone else to be

Perhaps we’d come to realise

There’s so much we cannot see

And maybe in the moments

You were me and I was you

We would see why people love us

And we’d learn to love us too

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Becky Hemsley 2023

Artwork by the wonderful Lucy Campbell

'Trading Places' is from 'Letters from Life' https://a.co/d/cX3wuDC

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