Alternates

I have been seeing things at the park! 

Last week I saw my oldest brother walking across the street from me.  He wore the same clothes my brother wears, walked just like him, even had his face!  Only a tattoo on his left forearm was different.  I wanted to run over and talk with him, only I know he wasn’t my brother!  My brother is far away and would never come here without stopping to see me, not to mention is health is too poor to really walk much anymore.  I wondered if it could be a Doppelganger?

This morning I saw my other brother riding through the park on the diagonal walk that crosses west to east.  He was on a bike and he grinned at me as we passed.  He wasn’t a dead ringer, but the resemblance was so close it gave me goose bumps.

Of course my family has lived in this part of the state and traveled through it for many years.  It is entirely possible that I do have relatives I don’t even know about.  It is also possible that people just resemble each other sometimes, or I am looking through eyes that want to see similarities.

But I like the idea that behind the trees and tucked into the shrubbery are little passages into Narnia or other alternate realities.  Wouldn’t it be interesting if my park were a gateway between two contiguous universes?  The possibilities pass the time while I take my morning walk.