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Alternate Reality/Mini Matrix by Knowon K. Antrés
I walk through a door
I see...
Another door
They both close and I am in darkness
Because of the doors in my way
I cannot escape the peril
Coming toward
From behind
And because of the doors in my way
Trapped! Trapped!
Unable to escape
Darkness! Darkness!
All around me
Unable to escape
I turn around
Again! Again!
And then
A light
A light of bright
Bright light of small proportion
Running toward the light
Ever growing
A dark figure in the center
Beckoning me to come nearer
As I come nearer
Toward the dark figure
Another light
A different color
A different figure
A light of brighter light
Both beckoning me to come nearer
I walk toward the first light
The bright red light
The other beckons ever more
I walk toward the second light
The bright white light
The other beckons ever more
I am so confused
Both figures promising
A better life
When I awake
I must choose
Or I will never wake up
I must choose
I must choose!
I must...
I wake up
I have escaped the darkness
I am in a bright white room
Unfamiliar faces
Worried faces
Surrounding me
Scared! Scared!
I can't sit up
I look around
With my eyes
Tubes! Tubes!
Tubes everywhere!
In me!
Around me!
I can't move my legs
I can't move my arms
And I realized
The light I took
The red one
I fall back to sleep
And it starts all over
Again! Again!
But instead
I wait for the white light
It appears!
I run straight for
The white light
I ignore the red
I wake up
I have escaped the darkness again
I am in a bright white room
Those same unfamiliar faces
Those same worried faces
Surrounding me
Scared! Confused!
I can't move at all!
I fall back to sleep
And it starts all over
Again! Again!
I see the red light
I run straight for
The red light
I ignore the white
I wake up
I have escaped the darkness yet again
I am in a bright white room
Those same unfamiliar faces
Those same worried faces
Surrounding me
I sit up
I look around
With my head
I move my legs
I move my arms
I look at the faces
I know who they are
My family
Back in the darkness
Looking at the two lights
I am confused
Then I realize
I am never going to escape
The darkness
Whatever I see
Within those lights
Will only be
An illusion
And nothing more
Those illusions
Will only be for
A few seconds
And back into the darkness
Where I will stay
The longest
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