I Am Reborn a Thousand Times
I am reborn a thousand times
Emulating the myth of phoenix
I reconstruct my image from ashes
Each time I die
crossing opaque layers of consciousness
Rendered impregnable by amnesia of death and
entering the cosy suffocating darkness
of wombs I am reborn a thousand times in
this world of ether water and earth
Brother,sister,daughter,mother,wife,son
These identities change as I, shedding and
wearing bodies like a shawl,pass onto from
one world to another
The asphyxiating silence of cremation ground
turns desires to dust each time
I am placed on pile of wood
I cannot see my formless essence in a mirror
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