Reincarnation

In a past life I was a poet. And a painter. And a mother of four.

In a past life I was a warrior. And a hero. And a victim.

I feel the lives in me that either once were or could have been, the ends of the choices I had the opportunity to make but didn't.

All these lives argue over what the outcome of this one will be, interjecting comments and dreams and memories from lives my religion doesn't allow me to believe, stirring up feelings and affections and directing me through life almost completely on touch. I feel my way through.