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I can't remember what it was I used to be. I say I even though I know it's not I, it's he. I am far, I have no past.
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| I say I am far as though I were someone, something, thing is too much, I don't warrant the word 'thing', let alone 'I', is there a word befitting of me, so much trouble these pronouns. | |
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Mayhaps a verb. Run, no, I never ran, speak, no, I can't speak, can't talk, murmur, murmur, yes, murmur will work, no, that attributes to much to my character, empty, what is the verb form of empty,
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| perhaps I am emptying, no, I am already empty, I have always been empty, no, that is too much, I have never been empty, can a thing be empty that was never filled, like me, unfilled, maybe that will | |
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work, an adjective for a name, Unfilled, I am the lacking, I am all lacking, no, I can't assume such a prestigious role in humanity's play, I am window dressing, no, not even that, I am dust,
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| particles maybe, no, too physically real, but these daydreams keep me going on, I must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. | |
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