Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away...
- Antigonish by Hughes Mearns: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/antigonish-i-met-man-who-wasnt-there
I really love this poem even though it is so short because it is how we all feel sometimes. It reminds me that when you feel insecure or afraid others do to. It to me is reminding of talking to yourself and believing it is another person. Most of us talk to ourselves but we mostly know it is ourselves. There are times though that we all can admit that the feeling of questioning oneself exists and this poem is a reminder of that for me. He knows this voice is not real, which means he is sane. But he also is afraid of this voice since it is inside his mind. To me it reflects the battles we all face with what is and is not real!