Chapter 1
I had one minute of glory
One minute with all eyes on me
One minute of:
“She is such a precious baby!”
And, “She looks just like her father!”
Only one minute of my life I had all to myself
For once not having to share a single thing.
But then out you came.
Screaming and crying
Pale, thin, pruney, and stealing my spotlight.n
From then on, my life was no longer my own.
“Who is the evil one?”
“Can you read one another’s minds?”
“Was it cool to have a womb mate?”
We even have to share questions.
I am going to be real with you sis,
sometimes I hate being a twin.
We are a combined oddity;
like the bearded lady or the elephant man.
When I am with you people stare.
To them, we aren’t normal people
We are the same
People don’t see me.
They see Twin.
Like a husband and wife
Or a mother and child
I am apart of you; I am you
I will never know what it is like to be alone
Sometimes I dream of being alone
I dream of my own tube of toothpaste
My own clothes
My own school
My own parents
My own friends
My own me
I dream of that one minute all alone
But I wake up when I am truly alone
The rare moments you are not by my side
“Are you guys clones?”
The answer is clear when I am without you
We are far from clones
We are opposites,
But that’s why I need you!
You are my voice and I am your mind
Together we make one body
Without the other, we wouldn’t be able to operate.
“Who is older?”
I am older, by one minute
The most miserable one minute of my life.
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