banking on the next life

we're not unhappy,

just miffed at the way things

have turned out.

i should have

been taller, faster, smarter.

i should have come from money,

had a real father.

had skin

of another color.

worshiped a different God.

had a brother or sister

to lean on.

a true friend.

maybe in the next life.

if there is one.