Nicely crafted poetry here @d-pend, with an intriguing thought. Over my long life, I've been in more than one conversation about "cloning" ourselves, given whatever amount of some challenge was in front of us ...
Separately, as the grandfather of twins, they have been very interesting to watch, as they clearly have some sort of unseen bond not found in children born solo ...
Where did you get the images accompanying your poem?
That is fascinating about your grandchildren @roleerob... I had a couple close friends in high school that were twins and they had the most intriguing connection, especially during adolesence when they were both wanting to discover their individuality. I had fun getting to know their idiosyncrasies and differences as well as similarities.
I wanted to play out the "fantasy scenario" of being able to possess multiple bodies and continue through to a less-than-fantasy conclusion—that eventually, some of our worst qualities would emerge, we would take having more than one of us for granted, etc. and experience disconnection.
Partially, I was being purposefully exaggerative, hopefully not too heavy-handed. Perhaps we would actually have a wonderful time having an army with the same DNA! I would expect near-telepathy and lots of unusual phenomena in such a scenario.
As for the images, I made them using Final Cut Pro, which is a wonderful video editor for Mac but doubles as a great still image editor as well.