My Alter Ego

(Prompt 7:

We're just two lost souls

Swimming in a fishbowl

Year after year.

-Wish you were here, Pink Floyd)

 

Beyond the nights that cover me

Into the abyss all dark

Hollow voices, Stygian eyes and forged smiles.

I was seeking the faintest sparks within

Screeching inside as each speck moved into hopeless swamps of void

A burden too heavy on the heart,

A lost battle with the mind.

Flickering bits of the past, few moments and some smiles

Ahh! that drifted in no time,

I stood fazed yet again.

What’s up with the time?

The sand isn’t passing the hourglass, is the dawn a destination too far?

The journey of what I am today, to where and What I could have been

Is the space between twilight and daybreak that shall meet nowhere.

What is it that’s consuming me?

The gasp, the numb, and so cold!

With all the energy to hold my arms, I move to the mirror.

So, horrifying!

The eloquent eyes beneath a veil,

Reflecting possibilities beyond horizons,

Grit to conquer the impossible,

And a long-lost smile.

I touched that face bracing to face the fear.

The churn of thoughts ripping the veins, sweaty palms and with delusion.

I unmasked the face;

A bolt out of the blue,

It wasn’t anyone but Me!