Hide and Seek

I saw her today in the mirror.
Just for a second,
and then she was gone.
Playing her game of hide and seek,
coming and going.
Then coming, going.
And coming back again.

She always does return.

She is Girl.
No. She is Woman.
But she is built of more than flesh and skin, hair, eyes, lips, limbs.
She is more than Body.
She is the stuff we cannot see.
That stuff we call Soul and Spirit.

She just has a body that is ever-presently here.

And so she runs and hides away,
but always returning.

For she never really leaves at all.
Just finds good hiding so far within that she seems gone.