travel, have kids,
drop them to school daily,
and eat the best meals in
the world.
We make love,
laugh, fight,
and nurse each other’s
angry hearts
like it’s our seventh life.
Slow walks in the park
in old age,
proud of the children’s
small victories-
then a quick, painless death,
as if we manifested it all
in our previous lives.
Then we are reborn again,
at different corners of
the world.
We bump into each other
in China- only to realise
It's is our eighth life.
By then, we would be
Bored and, as an act of love,
We decide to auction
Each other on the dark web.
Maybe a cosmic lord
Would bid high and realise
How he made his ninth
Mistake in a row with
the same couple.
We'd laugh at his foolish
Face again, and he would
Banish us again to earth.
We'd meet again to fall
In the same cycle-
Ohh how addicted he's
To the story we've
become.