the web of us...the WE of us...

an infinite series of time -
in a dizzily growing -
ever spreading network of diverging,
converging and parallel times -
this web of time -

the strands of which approach one another -
bifurcate -
intersect or ignore each other
through the centuries -
embrace every possibility -

we do not exist in most of them -
in some you exist and not i -
while in others i do -
and you do not -
and in yet others both of us exist -

in this one, in which chance has favored me,
you have come to my gate -
in addition, you, crossing the garden,
have found me dead -

in yet another,
i say these very same words,
but am an error
- a phantom -