I don't want anything from you.
I arrived centuries ago.
I've been a holy Roman Emperor
And a chief of a warring clan.
I thought to return as a woman
And live a life of peace
On a beach in southern France,
But like Tiresias I discovered
That although women do have more pleasure in love,
What life requires out of a woman is tiring and complex,
And much more so if she has been a destroyer of worlds in another life.
But I have learned much,
And all this just since I turned 40.

-jenn