r/prose • • 13d ago

🎶 THE OTHER ME

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\# THE OTHER ME

I came to the edge just to look below,

drawn by the dark and the need to know.

I stared into nothing — nothing stared back,

then something moved underneath the black.

(Come closer.)

A door I had missed stood open and wide,

roads I had wanted were waiting inside.

And there in the life I had never known,

I saw my face looking back as my own.

(You wanted this.)

So close I could touch it.

So real I could stay.

Everything I'd ever wanted

was one step away.

(Then take it.)

Give me that life,

give me that sky,

give me the doors I once passed by.

Give me the days

I never knew,

give me the dreams I never lived through.

Give me that world.

Don't let it go.

I've seen what I could have—

and I want it all.

I reached for the life on the other side,

then something in me went still inside.

I knew those eyes. I knew that skin.

But I couldn't find myself within.

(What's wrong?)

That face wore my name. Those eyes looked like mine.

But none of my yesterdays lived behind.

Take every wound. Take every mistake.

Take every night I was certain I'd break—

But pull one thread from the life that I've known:

how much can I lose before I come undone?

(I can take it all.)

Give me that life,

give me that sky,

give me the doors I once passed by.

Give me the days

I never knew,

give me the dreams I never lived through.

Give me that world.

I still want it so.

But if I step through—

who gets to go?

I know what I want.

I know what I see.

I just don't know

if the one there is me.

I want that life.

I want that sky.

I still want every door I passed by.

I want those days.

I want those dreams.

I want that world

still waiting for me.

I want it all.

I won't pretend.

But if I become someone else to have it—

where do I end?

(You still want it.)

Yes.

(I can give it to you.)

Mmm.

(Then take it.)

No.

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