[cross-posted at Medium]
Inside you
There’s an inner me
Who talks to you
Independently
He says things
I’ve never said
But might if I
Were in your head
How faithful
This facsimile
To the outer me
That others see?
How much like me,
This me in you?
How much does he
Combine we two?
He started off
As my design
So is he yours
Or is he mine?
Would I endorse
His words to you?
Approve of what
He helps you do?
Or would I say
“No, that’s not me”
If ever I could
Your me see?
You may ask
The same things too
’Cause in my head’s
An inner you
I’d like to
Introduce those two:
Your inner me,
My inner you
Would others
Seeing them discuss
Believe that
They were watching us?
Would inner we ask
In our steads
Of inner inners
In their heads?
Someday I’ll
No longer be
But you may go on
Separately
The me in you
May outlive me
Is this
Immortality?