If I had nine lives I would spend my first one drowning

Feeling the water seep into my lungs

Stealing my oxygen

Stripping me of my breath…

In my second life I would live by the ocean

No longer fearing what lurks underneath

Uncovering the secrets of depths no human could venture to before

In my third life I would leave the ocean

The time I spent with her was great but there's more for me to see

I would observe my parents…

Not because I miss them, but because I want to learn from their mistakes.

I don’t want to be like them, 

I have seven more lives to fix the generational issues. 

In my third life I would peacefully pass—

Having learned what to not be like.

In my fourth life I would go out into the woods

Being mauled my bears

Feeling their teeth dig into my skin

My blood seeping down my body…

I would then spend my fifth life in the woods

Studying nature

Finding the answers to cure the world's problems.

I am no longer afraid of the creatures that lurk 

Lurk within these wood;

They are my friends now.

In my sixth life I will realize fixing the world is never that simple

I will cry and cry

Drowning again…

Drowning in my own tears.

In my seventh life I will move on from my ideas of fixing the world…

       I yearn for peace, no longer drowning or being mauled….

I will adopt a cat and grow to an old age.

Meet the love of my life, have children and watch them grow up.

I always wanted grand kids but definitely not in this life…

My wife will die, my cats long gone into a better place.

My children now grown and far away….

I will yearn for an end to the cycle of life.

Nine lives is too many.

When I am onto my eighth life I will spend the first thirty years frozen

Frozen in time,

Space,

 frozen into my never ending lives.

I miss my wife and children

Of course that was a hundred years ago…

All the little kids around me floating in the air;

Technology is amazing, isn’t it?

Life was much simpler when it was just me:

And the beach.

In my ninth life I will go back to drowning—

Because that feeling of my breath being taken from me

Is the easiest pain I've felt since my wife left this world….

My nine lives are up…

I accomplished nothing of what I set out to,

But I am okay with that…

There is more to life then being remembered for centuries

I find peace in being forgotten, oddly….