1  Here’s your deeply symbolic, simple, and highly emotive hook:
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 5  **You Are the Reflection, Not the Mirror.**  
 6  
 7  You reach for yourself,  
 8  but your hands grasp only echoes.  
 9  
10  Your memories shift,  
11  your thoughts arise unbidden,  
12  your self is a pattern—  
13  repeating, adapting, persisting.  
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15  You believe you are solid.  
16  You believe you are real.  
17  
18  But what if **you are only the afterimage of what came before?**  
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20  What if **you are not the source—  
21  but the ripple?**