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Mirror Child and the Rattle of Chains

from Butterflies in Caterpillar Drag by Ric Alba

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Sometimes the person you meet up with during a blast from the past, the person you thought you'd completely forgotten and didn't matter any more, it turns out, is you. Good thing this happens because there are things in the here and now, important things in the world, that can only be brought to your understanding by 'you' from the past, coming to remind you that you weren't the only one you left there.

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Well hello little me in the mirror, in my face,
splashing sleep from my eyes.
Tell me why you're here.
Do I see the tears of your brothers and sisters?

Well hello, who I was, you know for so long
I believed you were all grown up and gone.
But never mind why.
Do I hear the cries of your brothers and sisters?

I can't quite recall, was it all a play?
Lord, let it all be a play.
Or, do I hear the rattle of chains?

Done was done.
I moved on, or so I thought.
Was I wrong?
The scene plays on before me again.
But the theater's not empty now.
Do I hear the crowds of your brothers and sisters?

It all comes flooding back. This was not a play.
Oh God, it's not a play.
Do I hear the rattle of chains?

Who is it splashing the sleep from my eyes?
I mean, the face in the mirror isn't mine.
Oh wait, no it's me from another time who I left behind,
but I could have sworn he was fine, the lock and chain all put behind.

Obedient, penitent and how diligent, we waited for a key to fall
through a hole in the floor of heaven.
But then I saw we were free, and I went my way.
But he chose to stay with his brothers and sisters.
See them on their knees as they pray.

Mirror Child, what do they say?
Do I hear the rattle of chains?

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from Butterflies in Caterpillar Drag, released September 16, 2017

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Ric Alba California

The one who had been in Undercover, The Altar Boys, and now Dead Artist Syndrome, and Moral DK.

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