Mistaken Identity

She mistook him for his voice, perhaps,

but his mistake was worse.

He took her for a child he had disowned:

in terror at a boarding school - himself.

 

He hated her for being him,

his heart and his betrayer.

 

She was not that child, was not disowned

and wore her oddity with pride.

But seeing her mistake, she left

 

and saved herself, perhaps.