Periphery

I did not invite it
Nor did I long for it to come.
Yet here it is
Connected entangled and tied to my mind
Caught me off guard, because it sneaked up on me.
I succumbed when caught by surprise
And too it blew my mind as it crept inside
The very heart of the intimate me
Yet I remembered to quickly hide the real and the true true
Of the totality of all the parts that make up me.
There would be no footprint, no trace to my authentic space
So I had an affair, a very daunting, haunting affair
A standoff in kind although I gave of my physical
Yet none of it meant nothing to me.
I chose to go offline during this rendezvous
I chose to become something this world never knew
In order to survive, incognito did I abide and
And I lived for a lifetime in a space on earth not recognized
Between realms that move in and out of existence on the cusp of this reality
Because in a second, I turned and glanced at a shadow on my periphery.

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