Nesitette (To The Lost Child) Poem by Sonya Florentino

I met a girl named Nesitette
One rainy day
A little girl named Nesitette
Who loved to laugh and play

This little girl named Nesitette
On that dreary day
Showed me how to dance and sing
in the rain

I miss this girl named Nesitette
who one day lost her way
Little darling Nesitette
who suddenly went astray

I love this girl named Nesitette
And though she's gone away
I know I'll find my Nesitette
again, someday

I saw someone like Nesitette
yesterday
As I was rushing through the streets
in the pouring rain
She was a grown-up woman
frolicking in the rain...

laughing~smiling~singing~dancing!
Laughing~Smiling~Singing~Dancing!
LaUgHiNg~SmIiNg-SiNgInG~DaNcInG!
U~N! A! S~H~A~M~E~D!

© 2009 Sonya Florentino


(Nesitette was a playmate of my older sister and me when we were little girls. We have no memory of her. My mother was the one who later told us that she would hear and see us talking and playing with this imaginary friend whom we called 'Nesitette.')