If I live
a hundred lifetimes,
some more glamorous than this;
some perhaps,
even poorer,
I will find
the same lonesome places
where I will sit contemplating
a hundred stories
to be told
a hundred different ways,
over and over
until the world
is a hundred times
a less lonely place.
The world may change
a hundred times over,
grow a hundred years older,
as long as I am in it
in a hundred different forms,
I will find
one pen
to inscribe
a hundred different truths,
one stage
with a hundred different players
to share it with,
in all the little corners
until we are found.
And in each lifetime,
you may wear
a hundred different faces;
I will keep finding
one
in which your soul belongs.
And I will offer
a hundred different songs
and a hundred more,
to remind you
of the hundred different ways
I chose you,
over and over
until you understand
there is no life I’d want more.
A Hundred Lifetimes
February 21, 2022
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