If there was a second life

If there was a second life parallel to this one of ours

in the next millionth of a second lives another me, and another you.

I wonder too sometimes what that he, that she, and that what I would become if fate spun the other way.

I would never know, not in this coming existence anyway.

My wise sister tells me there are no shortcuts with time.

Every deal is fair, non-wavering and universal, an invisible force of law we are bound to.
What you buy with time, you will eventually pay back, with time.

This curious thing, we are the experiment.