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// Witness Me, Phoenix 
// Story: Book 1 - The Behemoth came to Canterlot 
// by Equimorto 
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"
I'm falling
In the same direction you did
In the opposite direction you did
To a different place 
From a different place 
Through the same place 
In a different time 

I'm here
Where our paths converge 
Where our paths diverge
To greet you, even if you're not here

You were, once 
Twice, thrice, and again 
And again, here, yet not
You won't see this 
And I will not see you 
And maybe, that's how it should be

I've seen this world change
And I have accepted it
And I have lived through it
And I've suffered its changes 
And yet, I have changed it too

And I have put myself where I am now 
Who I am now 
What I am now
And the things that are in me

This world is suffering, wounded, screaming 
These walls are breaking, assaulted, bleeding 
These worlds are collapsing

And I see them
Running
As they try to understand 
As they try to fix things 
As they search for answers 
And I can't help them

And I know the answers, and I can't speak them
And I know the words, but forget the meaning 
And I can't go back to the world I feel from
The world I came from 
And I don't remember 

One of them spoke to me 
In a time where I was not myself 
I knew her, though I did not remember her 
And she too came from the world I left 
From the time I left 
And she too saw through the world I passed

And I spoke to her 
And remembered her
And the one who I am made a pact with her

She is my past
And I am her actions 
Her consequences, in my past, the future 
Ordered by me, as I am now 
Yet orchestrated by me, as what is in me
And I wasn't

I can't feel, towards this
It's how it must happen 
It's how it already had

I've tried to speak to them
I've tried to warn them
I've seen the future 
And I'll see it again
And maybe, I'll see me again

And maybe I'll leave, one day 
When this is all over
Last seconds have passed 
The creature has left 
And I can be myself again

I've warned them
Talked to them 
I will do it again
I never had a choice 
Yet I'm making all the choices 
And playing my part, and writing it
But I can't see it yet

Sometimes, I feel like I don't know where I'm going
But no matter 
This isn't what you're here for, anyway 

I am
Everywhere everywhen
Through these worlds 
Through these words 
And in this world 
I am
The threads that pull
And the pawn that's pushed
And here, I am now, as you've been before

And now, I am here, as you've never been
The shadow to your light 
The day to your night
The other side of the mirror, to your choices
To climb my way up as you fall
So

Witness me
As I walk past the tomb you lay in
As I'll walk past the tomb you'll lay in
As I walk to the world that you shunned