Inverted Perception

"Did you notice the clouds were speaking?" he asked, pointing upwards.

"But it's a mirror," she replied, "I see versions of us everywhere."

"When was the last time you chased a shadow?"

"We are just pixels in someone else's screen," he murmured, fading away.

"Reality bends around corners, just out of sight," she smiled, stepping through a doorway.

"Can colors exist without eyes to see them?" he pondered aloud, tracing the edge of a rainbow."

"Perhaps we are the echoes, a forgotten song in an ancient library," he dreamed.

"Are we the authors of our own script, or are we merely performing?"