Metamorphosis, a Reincarnation

METAMORPHOSIS

I am everything I used to be, and yet, I am none of it.

I am everything I was and all I am now at once.

Many different mes; evolved and metamorphosed into one.

A painful, ugly, and yet beautiful process.

I am still struggling; I am still growing.

And it’s dark and ugly sometimes, but at the same time--isn’t all growth ugly until it blooms?

I am hoping to bloom.

May I bloom some day soon.

I am ugly now, but in this painful transformation--

I hope I will become something, someone beautiful.

May we all become something strange--something beautiful.

REINCARNATION

I never lied.

Each incarnation of me at the time

Is exactly who I imagined myself to be.

I never knew that life had other plans,

And my soul would churn and gyre

Creating new mes and new sight--

Regardless of inciting new ire.

I regret nothing.

If I have been me--in many stages,

I am now becoming a soul

That never ages.

2020

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