What If I Lived For Two Thousand Years and One Day
A birthday poem
Published in
Jan 20, 2024
If I lived for a thousand years
— two thousand
Would I be wiser?
Or would I still kick the air
with anger
Would I still delay the thoughts I want
to ponder
Or would I pause —
to look time in the eye
Would I have a name
for all the lines in my palms
Would one look suffice
To tell the truth from the lie
Oh but what if —
If I lived for a day
Would I be wiser
Would I look at my life with wonder
Would my path spread out, larger
Would I be seeing with all my eyes
Or just two?
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