Reincarnation

In my reincarnated life I

want to be a bird

with wingspan wide enough to

outperform Icarus.

I want to set myself alight, and for

this purposeful miscalculation to be

another mythic plunge

to earth.

I want the pyrotechnic display of power

not accorded me in previous life. I want

everything to end the way it began,

with cymbals of clashing worlds, the

giant bang of new beginning.

I want,

for one moment

in this reincarnated life, to

be ancestor to the gods.