<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530558" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Echopraxia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can see myself<br>Clearly in the reflection<br>Of my mirror, <br>A fluid glass pane.<br>I am a ripple, <br>A skipping stone<br>Dropped in the depths<br>Of the parallel world<br>That seems to exist<br>On the other side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am dripped in the water, <br>Drying out in the sodium deposits—<br>Dehydrated and drowning<br>Simultaneously.<br>I plunge deeper still, <br>Unable to adjust<br>The shifting sands<br>Spiraling down, around me.<br>They rub away at<br>My pearl lined pupils. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pressure increases<br>The further I go.<br>My lungs, <br>Like oxygen balloons, <br>Blow up with pocketing air, <br>Packed and condense, <br>Popping before I surface.<br>They collapse as<br>Elastic shrapnel<br>Buzzing as I breathe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My chest fills with blood<br>While I slowly sink, sink, sink.<br>The salt stains<br>The leaking aqueducts<br>That stream from the sea of myself<br>Or who I think I am.<br>In thick, murky algae water, <br>Do I really have control<br>Of that which I see? <br>Do I really? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stretch outward, <br>My muscles twitch<br>As my arms reach<br>To grasp at the current<br>That pushes me, <br>That tosses me, <br>Dizzied and disoriented, <br>Plummeting into nowhere, <br>Down the whirlpool<br>Which contorts my reflexes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the crystal skin, <br>The diamond crusted shimmer, <br>A spectrum of liquid clarity<br>Radiates<br>And pours through the space<br>That separates my fingers.<br>What do I find in this, <br>But an echo of myself<br>Trickling backwards<br>To the source?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tim+Stensloff">Tim Stensloff</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530558" data-title="Echopraxia de Tim Stensloff" data-description="I can see myself Clearly in the reflection Of my mirror, A fluid glass pane. I am a ripple, A skipping stone Dropped in the depths Of the parallel world That seems to exist On the other side. I am dripped in the water, Drying out in the sodium..."></div> </div> </div>

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