"It's Time to Start Over," by Robyn Joy

Every 3 or 4 years I feel it

It’s time to start over

Wishing we had reset buttons

Instead of 80-100-year expiration dates

But the Buddha says

my essence would stay

Or would I be a new essence

Or would whoever I started over being

eventually revert to original me

It’s not that I can’t change,

it’s that old me’s are never forgotten

Even if I leave one behind,

someone inevitably knows a story

I don’t live under

my family tree mythology anymore,

but they know all about

the me’s I was while I did

and we have been learning

how to talk now

in this new language I speak