Four
branches moving, inside my mind
Moments later.
Or was it, in reality, months or even years, and decades that had silently passed me by? That I can not truly say, but to me it felt just like any other fleeting moment, like when you look up from the morning paper, having just read a bunch of obscure black ink headlines that suddenly makes you realize that while what could almost be perceived as 'yesterday' for you,
in reality, was your entire life swept away in a blur that ended in the blink of an eye as 10 years had already charged you by and before the postman's hand with a loud clunk dropped the next postcard or whatever meaningless junk they still delivered in your mailbox, just 'hours' from now, another 5 years would have been buried alive. A life never lived was no life at all
