The Bizarro World

In the DC comics universe, a planet called “Htrae” (“Earth” spelled backwards) is populated with bizarre versions of superheroes. A Seinfeld episode made the idea of this Bizarro World popular, where the characters encountered their opposite selves. Craft a scene in which you meet an opposite version of yourself — or a story in a bizarre, back- wards world.

I am doing this as part of a challenge I came across on the web -
365 DAYS OF WRITING PROMPTS
A prompt to fire my imagination, each and every day for a year
The Editors, WordPress.com

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What My Opposite Self Told Me.

“Hello Opposite,” she said.

My silence pleaded her to go on, I had to hear her, I had to watch her. I had to experience my Opposite self.

“When you were born, I was always beside you.

Invisible, thin as air, cloning your movements, mirroring your mind and mimicking your teary wisdom.

Then one day you drifted apart. You floated away like an oakwood and they buzzed around you like stinging bees.

I was an oakwood too, but I had to take you swimming in the paraffin. Had to drown to show you what death felt like. But you were gone. We could barely meet.

I began noticing how you would change shape in every pair of hands, you were being passed on into. “Shapeshifter!” I would yell at you. I wonder if my voice ever reached you.

Remember when we stood in front of the mirror for the first time? The four of us felt whole, in our baby blue cotton tanks. Why do you not feel that way any more? Does your reflection scare you?

There are so many such moments when I have wanted to tell you to be wise like your first tear but I have failed miserably. Maybe this was the plan. This is how it was mean to be.

Embrace you dark side. 
Question everything. Especially what you overthink. 
When did you stop believing in yourself? 
And when did you get so comfortable with losing?

Do you remember the times you would cry because you couldn’t be number one in the many things you chose to put yourself into?

Get back to being the winner. 
Climb walls. Literally, not metaphorically. Or that too.
Make decisions and stitch your values around them. 
Seek the light. 
Rise by lifting others. 
Rise, rise, rise.

Work is worship. Sleep less. Dance more. 
Drink, if that’s going to loosen your muscles and your mind. And your body.

Stretch like a dog. 
Run like a stray. 
Love like a lady.
Dress like the star-studded sky. 
And if you don’t feel like, pull the quilts on.

But get back to being who you are, to being us.

See you on the other side, real soon.”