The Steps That Follow
Sometimes the person following you is the person you best know.
Every step echoed by tomorrow.
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Footsteps.
Click. Click. Click. Click.
Keep sounding behind me.
Their clicks in sync, a second late
Then pause.
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Visions
In tainted glass.
Familiar, yet transformed.
Shape same, alike, and yet beyond
Click. Click.
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Closer.
Eyes brown. Same brown.
Its scar, livid, too seen.
Same walk. Same swing. Same pause.
Same step.
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It turns.
Its face, older.
No stranger, not a ghost--
Seen before, and yet unseen--
Myself.
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The scar.
Clearer than mine.
Bearing the untold tales
About to take shape and take hold
In time.
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Original poem by Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin. AI tags are coincidental.
For Vocal's Don't Turn Around Challenge
About the Creator
Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin
Hi, i am an English Language teacher cum freelance writer with a taste for pets, prose and poetry. When I'm not writing my heart out, I'm playing with my three dogs, Zorra, Cloudy and Snowball.
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