Twilight Trails

You will achieve grand dreams, a day at a time, so set goals for each day -- not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal -- to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished. Og Mandino

It is a mere window. A sheet of glass, separating me from another me. The more I look, the less it changes. I move my head and it does the same. How dare this intruder, mimic me so precisely. The birds fly past, touching my double, yet all he does is stare at me as if I'm all that exists. I snarl, I bare my long incisors and he returns my jester, his teeth appearing longer and sharper than my own. The fiend, it's as if he's my shadow but how can he be a shadow when no sun is shinning? It's dark beyond this window and the wind arises, yet not a hair moves on his smooth arched back. I yawn, I stretch, he does the same, but my head is tired. I've thought too much. I close my eyes, inviting sleep. It's beyond who I am to care