I am an absence of self, a shadow of nothing. I do not know what I am. All I know is that I am not you.
I turn the key and open the door, each day, to somewhere new. A house, a home, a bedroom. Alone. And for a while, in the silence that’s been left for me to lose myself in, I dream of a life.
Yours, perhaps, pieced together from the objects and fragments with which you’ve built your home. Or mine, sometimes, constructed out of nothing but fragments of my own imagination.
When I hear the click of your key in your lock, I have to be quick. And as I leave I take something small. I keep it with me to remember you by in those long lonely hours of the night. For somewhere in the dark and the shadows behind the doors of your rooms, just like you, I dream. I dream.
And all night I wonder, if we compared my notes to yours, how close would I be to knowing you. How much of yourself would you recognise in me?
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Notes:
1. Written in February 2020.
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