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Joseph Sinclair
Poems
May 2015
DOPPELGANGER
I think that I once met myself
upon the roadside coming back.
So sure was I that it was me
I almost had a heart attack.
Another time I thought I saw
myself reflected in a pane
of glass upon a garden skip.
It almost served to drive me sane.
Then there was that occasion when
I found beside me in my bed
a doppelganger of myself.
Was I alive?Β Β Or was I dead?
How can I know what lies in store
except by taking one step more.
One step to face in the unknown
what I had mastered heretofore.
But possibly this other me
is simply also hesitant
and also chooses to ignore
what really is self-evident.
Iβm waiting for the day, you see,
when opening a door, I pass
into a room where bygone me
is stepping through a looking glass.
A trivial piece written tongue-in-cheek . . . or maybe tongue in someone else's cheek.
Written by
Joseph Sinclair
London, England
(London, England)
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