If life were kind enough to lend me a world,
I’d borrow one where magic breathes,
where staircases change their minds
and autumn refuses to leave.

I’d ask the castle to remember me,
the way old houses remember rain,
and let its windows hold the faces
I may never see again.

Perhaps time would sit beside me,
too tired to run, too wise to speak,
while yesterday came knocking
with the people I still seek.

And when the game had reached its ending,
I’d ask for nothing more to keep,
except one ordinary afternoon
with those whom even magic couldn’t retrieve.

— AJ Gabriel Writes

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If you could live inside a video game, which world would you choose? And if that world could grant you just one impossible wish, what would it be?