I made a wish to you

Three times a week

I never told you how I

Lost the baby or

Never made the bed or

Made your brother so angry that

He doesn't come over anymore

My pasts were lies and I had no future

Exiled in a land where only

Women and dogs live

No children born for the past 200 years

I leapt off my balcony

Onto a parapet

Paid the boy a nickel and told him

Not to return

Sold all my possessions

Bought everything brand new

Died the next day

Came back as a cypress tree

On a Wednesday morning when

The new earth had just begun

9/12/2013