Worse Case Scenario

Lights come back on, did I blink, or did I die A screen or something resembling one, kind of firmament appears ahead I’m urged not forced, go take a walk through memories, images, echoes, familiar voices, flicker all around This was my life, must be over now, over and done Could this be judgment day, or another weird dream Just then, a broken child comes along, Now let’s see, I’m you, your me, We’re the same but different, changed by time Hey he says, you remember that time, falling from the big tree on holiday want to watch it again, Sure why not, wasn’t that bad But this time, I don’t get back up My parents are crying frantically and I’m not breathing Yeah I died that day, says the child No I got back up, bloodied and bruised, I tell my younger self not in my timeline I’m afraid, This is an alternate reality You mean I died, and dreamt my whole life in some kind of coma, No every eventuality that could have happened, does happen Welcome to infinity Welcome to behind deaths membrane Hello! here comes another me along, I’m a teenager and there’s an axe buried in my head I could never figure out, how that bastard missed. By David Kavanagh