The Lantern

I want to be just like the other two. This is my dream. When I close my eyes and see who I really am, I know I’m exactly like them. 

I really am just like the other two. We’re the same color. We have the same movements. I just haven’t clicked on for awhile.

Once I click on, I know we’ll be the same. It just takes a certain Je ne sais quoi. Once I click on, I’ll have the same light. We’ll all beam brightly together.

I would be just like the other two if I could figure out the switch. It was once turned on, I swear. One of them said I was so much brighter. The other one didn’t say a thing. If I could just remember how to press the right button, we’d literally all be the same.

I heard one of them say to the other that our room was a complete dump. I asked why, but they said I wouldn’t get it. I thought about asking again later on, but I’m glad I can’t see what they know.

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8 thoughts on “The Lantern

  1. I love this…it’s so very original…Such a unique premise and the repeated thought stated differently each time, really works so well: ” we’d literally all be the same.”

  2. Enjoyed reading this. I was particularly interested how one of the lit lamps insisted the narrator was “so much brighter” and yet all the narrator wanted to be was just the same as them.

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