I saw him slowly fading out
For years he visited me in dreams
Dreams that my memory struggled to erase.
Retired into the peace that oblivion confers
looking to evade its memory,
that follows me like a dark litany
Even with the hastened step of the years,
each day has lasted an eternity
deceiving us in its succession.
We are nothing but prisoners,
of an infinite trap that we strive to name
It doesn't matter anymore
Soon we will be gone
There is no rush.
Closing my eyes, I wake up
and passing through that fog that clouds reason
I find myself in the other, of whom I only know
the small pieces that I recognize in myself
In that escaping dance
like an endless cycle
Who escapes and who pursues?
Condemned to never find one another
Maybe it's the eternal night
that connects us in its emptiness
finding in us
its expression of pain
But the light refuses the stares
and the awakening fades into regrets
Do you really think your suffering matters to the universe?
Look at the sky and tell me if a star has ever wept for you
It doesn't matter anymore
Soon we will be gone
There is no rush.
How is one to know if those dreams
were nothing but the awakening
of the other who dreams of me?
Who knows if I'm not the other
who begs for death
… And I will become one with all, and I will become no one
Maybe I have been the other
perhaps, I am no more.
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