Poetry Project, v. 10.0, Day 16

past lives

there are time when i know i have seen
what is about to happen,
because i've seen it before,
somewhere else,
another time,
another place,
when i wore the face of another person,
and wielded a weapon these hands have never felt.

i've seen glimpses of those lives,
moments of knowing, really,
that explain many of the experiences
this life contains.

they way i hold a sword,
see movement before it happens,
understand the next thing
that must inevitably follow -
shadows of old lives aiding this one.

there are places i fear to go,
plots of earth i know will hold answers,
perhaps to questions i am not ready to ask,
because i fear the answers that may be waiting for me.

Thanks for reading,

Me