The episode with the multiverse

We are a fixed point in time

The burden of Time Lords; x where F(x) = x

In all timelines exists the variations of a voice note

Of me laughing at your bad jokes,

A pair of ferret socks, a diary of adventures.

In this one, I am your little furry sidekick who talks

Mostly to make sarcastic unhelpful comments

As you blunder through side quests to liberate all 

The creatures inside Dr Z’s lab.

In another, you are an old oak tree on the divide,

Sacred to both sides and I am your protector in

Silver armour, I sleep in the crook of your roots. 

There’s one where we are both pencils, made at the same time

I outlive you, you write more than me.

Another we are clocks on the same wall, my seconds beat

Just a fraction faster than yours.

We are boulders under a cliff

Blades of grass on a Biodome planet

Alien races on opposing sides

Supernatural detectives in a small Oregon town.

In the timelines where we don’t meet, something is missing,

our lives are never quite what they should be.

And somewhere there’s that one

Where the timing is right

The distance is short

And everything falls into place.