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NEVER ME

I’m 16 years behind you
I see your quickening decline
—soon to be mine—
Through the years I’ve
denied this truth, that
you mirrored my youth...
What will happen to me
I see in real time, see it
happening to you; to me
16 years hence.
Each wrinkle,
every forgotten memory– mine
though I swore I would
never be, it’s your face,
the reflection looking back
in the mirror I see,
never me.

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