It felt like the book
wouldn't let me rest,
like it wanted to tell me more,
like he wanted to tell me more.
Wherever I went, I'd
see his eyes following me -
in the corridor, outside the window.
But he didn't mean to haunt me.
He was just a desperate soul,
wanting to be understood,
every fine detail of his story
should be visualized,
analyzed,
then crystallized,
like it meant something
after all.
The more I let myself
fall into this,
the harder it was to stop.
Already now I felt
our spines tenderly woven together,
a fragment of someone else in me,
that would stare at me
through my own eyes
in the mirror.