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Awakened

To realities not my own

Reflections of choice and consequence

Alternate paths intersecting

In a room of familiar strangers

Draining bourbon as the melody plays

Indescribable

The meeting of oneself

Over and over again

Events and decisions that changed us all

Now I reflect in affirmation

And pain of deepest regret

Curiositas

Desiderium

Convergence

Contentus

Concilio

Convergence

What is and

What might have been

Questions now answered

Bittersweet

This surreal encounter

Impaling irony and perspective

Once again this night

We are intertwined

My wounds rip open again

Indescribable

The meeting of oneself

Over and over again

There but for the grace of god

There by his wrath I suffer

And yet here I dwell

Curiositas

Desiderium

Convergence

Contentus

Concilio

Convergence

What is and

What might have been

Questions now answered

Drunken, I pass a mirror

And catch my reflection

I return to look deep into my own eyes

And meet myself there