A Thousand Lives
<p>Melancholy rivers<br />
run through this body<br />
of lingering sorrow<br />
and a yearning<br />
for lost stories<br />
forgotten by time —<br />
<em>in another life,<br />
I could live<br />
a thousand lives.</em></p>
<p>A hundred birds in one,<br />
a hundred letters<br />
of burning passion<br />
that has never died,<br />
a hundred different<br />
psalms that bring me comfort<br />
in the dead of night.</p>
<p>A hundred stories<br />
of triumph against the odds,<br />
a hundred flights of stairs<br />
closer to heaven<br />
than where I am now.</p>
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