She came back home from a morning class
And she thought to find him there,
She called for him in the morning room
And she climbed the wooden stair,
She called him up on her mobile phone
And she said, ‘Where are you, Sam?’
His voice came nervously, in reply:
‘I don’t know where I am!’

The signal crackled, then faded out
And it came back in again,
She heard him mutter and try to shout,
His words reflected pain,
‘I don’t know how to get back,’ he cried,
‘That door down by the stair,
It opened up and it shut me out,
When I looked, it wasn’t there!’

‘There isn’t a door by the stair,’ she said,
‘There isn’t a door at all,
You must have fallen and hit your head,
There’s blood on the stairway wall.’
‘It’s true that I must have cut myself
When the door had swung ajar,
But the house has gone, I’ve moved along,
And I don’t know where you are.’

‘Well tell me how I can find you, and
I’ll get some help to search,
I might have to call an ambulance
If you’ve fallen off your perch.’
‘This isn’t a joke, I’m not insane,
But my world has turned about,
I tell you the door just disappeared
When it closed, and shut me out.’

‘I’m out in the woods, beside a stream
With a girl that looks like you,
I know she’s not, but she says she is,
And her name is Mary, too!
She swears that she’s the original
And that you must be a clone,
She told me about the guy you meet
When you’re safely on your own.’

Then Mary shook and she went quite pale
And she said, ‘It isn’t true!
There was a fellow that came my way
But I swear, he looked like you.
He had me fooled for a moment there
But I knew it when we kissed,
And then I ****** him away, and said
‘Your lips don’t taste like this!’’

He breathed a sigh as she wiped her eye
And he heard her cry on the phone,
‘I shouldn’t have doubted you, my dear,
But I’ve been so long alone.
Our lives had drifted apart, so much
That I wondered if you cared,
We allowed ourselves to be led, instead of
The love that we should have shared.’

‘Look for the door by the bottom stair,
When it opens, come to me,
Then we can be together again
As good as it used to be,
We’ll live the life that we should have lived
Before, when our love was true!’
‘Don’t ever question my love,’ she said,
My only love is you!’

A door came shimmering into view
At the bottom of the stair,
And swung out wide, on the other side
Was her twin, she would declare,
She pushed on through, and into the house
As Mary went through the door,
And turned to look, as the building shook
And sank to the forest floor.

Then Sam had taken her in his arms
As he had, when they were young,
And spun her dancing between the trees
As she laughed, her eyes had shone,
While up in the house, the clones had stared
For their love had been a sham,
‘We’re not going to make it now,’ he said,
‘I don’t know where I am!’

David Lewis Paget