Step out and then in

Have you ever looked at yourself with your own eyes?
Not as 'I' but as 'she' or 'he'?
Stepped outside your skin and looked down at yourself?
Seen your clothes, your hair and the skewed glasses from another's place?

If so, what did you see?
Did you see someone whom you didn't know at all?
Or someone whom you aspired to be one day and did not know you had become?
Did you see someone pathetic and distraught?
Or realised you needed someone's help after all?

Did you reach out to touch that person
On the head or the shoulders?
Did you hug them and cry or laugh out loud
For how ridiculous the whole idea seemed?

Did you walk into your own person
Adjusting and re-adjusting your world view?
Or stepped away from that 'self'
Because it was difficult to deal with that personal view?

What did you do, darling?
Because when I stepped out, I was still in myself.