See These Things?
© October 11th, 2019
By Vijaya Sundaram
See these things? These are walls. They are transparent.
See those things? Those are shadows of the outside world on those walls.
See this? These are your hands pressed up against the walls holding you in. Press harder. Do it.
You shift your molecules and atoms to match the configuration of the molecules and atoms of the walls, and you slip through.
Then, you rearrange yourself again into what you recognize.
You’re out! Who knew that would happen?
Wait!
What are these? These are walls. They are transparent.
What are those things? Shadows, again!
And this? Your hands pressed up against the walls, looking for a space within the atoms holding that plane, so you can slip through.
And through you go.
And onward.
You want to stop?
Close your eyes. Open them again. See?
No walls.
You look inside.
What is that?
What is that?
Your flesh?
What’s that pressed up against the inside of your skin?
Is that you? The *you* you?
Press harder?
Back off?
You stand still within, frozen.
Your body keeps moving,
You stand still within, frozen.
Your body keeps moving,
Pushing through the omentum of space.
Momentum.
Momentum.
What do you do next?
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