~ / art / Narcissus

My brain is missing a lobe so I can’t
talk to myself like I used to
instead I stare into the lake of myself
bending down and down to touch nose
to nose to nose
there are fish beyond my parroting lips
I watch them dispassionate and wonder
what they make of me
what they think of the other me
my two half-lives above and below the vault
there is no bridge between these worlds
the two halves of me separate like eggs