A hall stretches out before us.
You waste no time sprinting off
but soon we are aligned
my legs are just a bit longer, still.
The hall twists
and without warning,
we hit a wall, knocking down a mirror.
Thousands of glass shards
fall onto us, around us, a
swarm of stinging wasps
piercing skin of my cheeks, shoulders, forearms, feet.
I have lost sight of you
but I don’t dare look up,
protecting my eyes by searching for you instead
in the reflections on the floor.
I catch you everywhere, surrounding me
a golden hair, a freckled knee
in every silvery surface.
When I reach out to you
my hands find nothing–
it’s my own reflection I had encountered.
Astonished by our sameness
I cast my confounded eyes upwards
till I find you leaning up against a wall
bracing your body covered in cuts.
I am beside you in one stride
and when I look at you
my skin begins to melt right off my body
blood leaks from my fingertips
I do not feel anything,
not even surprise.
We continue carefully down the hall
keeping an eye on where to place our feet,
we must cross the shattered mirror on the ground.
Looking down, it is nothing but a blur of us
Two beings
One motion
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