marked

as a kid

i had a birthmark on

the back of my neck.

my mom called it

“a strawberry spot where

the stork bit you”. but today

jay told me that birthmarks can

tell of how you died in a past life.

if the mark goes away, then

you have lived past your previous self.

the pink mark is long gone, left behind is

only a very shallow dip in the skin.

it leaves me to wonder what

could have happened to me

when my soul was in a different body.