I didn’t want to be someone,
I hardly recognize,
Yet pain, it changes everyone…
In time.
Every day I am further from,
The soul I used to be;
Closer to who I have to be…
To survive.
The tragedy of life is that,
Time changes everyone,
And one day when we look in the mirror we don’t recognize…
Anyone.
So here I am: A replicant,
Of who I used to be.
I want to live, but yet I can’t;
So I live on, not as me,…
But as you.
K. Aldaya, 7/6/18
Picture: Alicia Vikander in Ex Machina; http://exmachina-movie.com/
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