Reincarnation

what is your maker?

the egg that hatched your nature

or the lives that influence your lessons,

from past plagues, murders, and

maybe affairs—

did you come from

states miles away

or some country centuries past

            have parts of us met,

            you as my teacher

            or me as your mother, enemy, or—

did all of you start

in that womb

with the portions of the two,

at the same time my two favorite lovers

started me

so that we, strangers, could grow separately into

what we have become

and are waiting to be,

for ourselves,

and possibly each other.

(original draft written Dec. 2,  2009

this revised draft from Feb. 24,  2010)