The Girl Next Door

The books fall back
As she enters the room
Keep you fixed in her tunes
There she blinks, and smiles, and laughs
Then she moves
dancing in my room!

One can hear her
Even when she's far away
Perhaps, arguing with her roommate
Bursting again at her jokes
One thing is for sure:
she'll never let you get bored!

Everyone knows her here
As she walks around,
saying aloud her greetings
"Hi Di!", "Hi Pooja!", "Hi Sherry!"
She'll sit for sometime and study seriously
And then distract herself with something funny.

She'll stand before the mirror
from time to time,
trying different dresses, make-up and shoes
taking pictures of herself
Then she'll ask us to review
And that's Shyamly for you



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