on day at a time living

the piece started with an idea
about who we were or might have been
or could (still) be. come as one of those
and meet me at the tree.
existential conversations, many
worlds theory and our alternate
selves. possibilities, of slipping
stream, of re arranging the pieces of
what makes us *us, as in: who we are.
at the time, i was newly ill,
decided to try the life i might
have had if i had taken
another path.