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I met myself and said, "Stop throwing myself around time. The past and future are just fine without me. Besides, I'm getting everything confused."
Then I said, "I don't understand, what do I know, since I'm just a different version of myself." I stopped to think about this, and as I did, every version of me merged into a we, and we knew only birth and death and triumph and despair and boredom, since there was nothing to separate this from that, and there was no time to be anything other than us, since we saw only the all of us together at last.
We thought, "This must be what it's like before or after a universe creates itself. Before time stretches us out into different people, like an uncoiled rope. Now we have tied ourselves back together. We will always be we, forever and ever."
At least until the next kablooey, and we are blown across time into me and me and me.
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dVerse Poets Pub
you're walking the philosophical path today matt...the merging into we...the meeting and accepting ourselves...i like
ReplyDeleteAnd that interconnectedness is beautiful and divine...and quite often destroyed by humans who know no better through dogma and preconditioning...Happy Bucket goes deep...and I LOVE it....nothing to do with the serious skills you have at wordweaving ;)
ReplyDeleteNicely crafted Matt and I really resonate to your philosophical spin!
ReplyDelete"I don't understand, what do I know, since I'm just a different version of myself." I stopped to think about this, and as I did, every version of me merged into a we..."
Nicely said, and probably darn close to reality!
Roger ☺
ha well now that will make your head sure spin...the me before time got a hold of me and stretched me out...if you run into him tell him to come home to me....twisty bit of philosophical fun in this...
ReplyDeleteA delicious conceit which is actually a piece of profound philosophy! I love it, and adore the final sentence.
ReplyDeleteOh, this has a wicked wit, prose amplifying the feeling of being interwoven and potentially tripped up. Like entering a house of mirrors at the labyrinth of a philosophical fun house! A joy and I agree with Rosemary a fantastic conceit that also plays with postmodern themes of identity and boundaries. Yummy!
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of meeting yourself! Well done!
ReplyDeleteMade me smile... I love the third paragraph.
ReplyDeleteI'm just a different version of myself... Oh Yes! I have felt this sensation before. Witty and entertaining and true!
ReplyDeletethis is simply brilliant. wonderful thoughts shaped and formed.
ReplyDeletei hope the 'kablooey' will wait for a while and let you experience some more.
This is seriously cool!
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