I have been here before

Many times more

A different face

In a different place.

As each vessel dies

Amidst loved one’s cries

The spirit rises

I return in guises.

Plato, Nero, Rembrandt and Bach

Each return gives new paths to walk

Embodied within

A new life and new skin.

Creating a future from the past

Lessons learned from knowledge amassed

Life begets life endlessly driven

Vessels usurped to what they’ve been given.

Each child born

Loved and mourned

Returns in its due time

In rhythm and rhyme.

We have been here before

Many times more

With different faces

In different places.