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Monozygotic


Connected by the heart and clasped with a hand
 
A whole lifetime and more spent in constant company, a single monochrome 
 
In dazzling colors blended by genes, painted with love.
 
Questioning identity in sadness
 
Trapped in a mirror of dazzling iridescence,
 
A reflection of me that is her and a her that is me,
 
Her hand scratches her script while I play a tune on trombone of constant
 
Inquiring, inquest, inquisition of
 
Irresolute identity
 
Whispering questions of “I am…?”
 
Multiples
 
That is all
 
The Twins
 
The Girls
 
Them
 
One. 
 
A constant struggle of definition and individuality.
 
But I am me, she is her
 
We are separate and the same
 
My passion like ivy, 
 
Winding
 
Intertwining 
 
Fastening
 
My temperament to wear rose-colored glasses to the darkest-cloaked of villains,
 
Or my stage presence as a wooden puppet 
 
Toppling
 
Wobbling
 
Stumbling
 
Struggling
 
About
 
Is me. 
 
It is her. 
 
We are one and this is me. 
 
A twin. 
 
Separate
 
Equal
 
Monozygotic. 
 
Transcendent. 
 
 
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