do you remember me?

i remember you.

do you remember what happened?

bold to assume i forgot.

do you hold yourself accountable?

daily.

you didn't do anything.

exactly. i could have.

but what would have happened?

i don't want to think about it.

then why blame yourself?

it's easy, i guess.

you always did like the easy option.

yeah but can you blame me.

no. but it's keeping you down.

you don't know that.

i do.

you never knew me that deeply.

but i know you now.

get out of my head.

i am you.

i'm talking to myself?

is that not what dreams are? a mirror to your deepest insecurities?

i don't want to think about that.

then you don't have to. you don't even have to think about me, if you don't want to.

but you said you're me.

and i'm a part of you.

so i can't not think about you.

correct. why don't you just... try?

i'm not ready.

then you should have said that. i'll still be here.

it's not like you can go anywhere else.

no. i will always be with you. because i am now you. you can detach and dissociate but you cannot escape me.

get away from me.

you can run but i will fill your every footstep with my own.

my shadow will intertwine with your own every waking moment of the day.

even now as you lay in bed, still as the waters of a pond, i am there.

you cannot break my hold.

and why should you want to? you would not be here if it wasn't for me.

i don't want to talk to you anymore.

then wake up. and do not come back.

or blot out these memories with slumber.