Mirror Image

- Who are you, tell me?
The sulking one?
Or she who brings joy?
Who are you?

- You tell me... who am I!

- I should tell you?
Alright then... I'll say it myself!
The sulking one? No, no, that's not you!
Had you been such, you could never have found me!
In sulking you'd have vanished long ago, somewhere! But you didn't go!

Then are you she who brings joy, who has fashioned this new me?
No, that's not it either! I haven't become new at all!
I remain the same old self! That familiar me of buried sorrows and measured raptures!

Then who are you?
My beautiful songstress perhaps?
Or are you my lost, bygone completeness?
Who are you, tell me truly?

- Oh, you tell me!

- I should tell you? Well then...
Are you that beautiful songstress who enchanted me with her perfect eyes?
No, not that! I still haven't found such a gaze anywhere!
Then are you the complete one, who has enriched me with wholeness?
No, not that! I'm still not whole! Everything about me remains incomplete even now!

Then who? Who are you? Who, tell me? Say, who are you!

- I am your very sulking one, whose every achievement became you!
I am your very joy-bringer, whose every new discovery became you!
I am your very beautiful songstress, whose entire beauty became you!
I am your very completeness, whose total wholeness became you!

Search within your secret depths...
There you'll find only me, beloved!
I dwell in your innermost being!... never in externals!
I am she who is nothing but you!
I am your own mirror-image!