Reincarnation (Poem)

by Francoise Chouinard
5th January 2023

You live differently when you’re dead:

A friend, a wedding ring, family, your body;

hatched into dust.

 

Love, enclosed in the grave

of your open heart,

fragile in memory, like the moments

you collapsed crying, into a beloved’s arms.

 

The world lured itself to you.

A rebirth vision unglued your eyelids.

Allow yourself to see life

as an evergreen playground.

Water the roots, let yourself grow,

absorb the minutes with passion,

feel them dissolve in the changeless past

through the ticking sound of a longcase clock.

 

The older the years, the quicker time passes,

the more frightening silence gets,

as beat by beat, the heart

exhausts its breath.

Then history builds itself again

and creates another bridge for you to cross.

One stone after another,

you learn to reinvent,

you learn to surrender.

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