I wish

I wish that I was someone else

someone lucky by chance

or just somebody

that had another life

reborn clean and new

unaffected by life's tricks

I wish that I was someone else

maybe some young lover

awakened by that first kiss

or some brave explorer

stumbling across some

new species of butterfly

I wish that I was someone else

perchance a wealthy man

with servants hanging on

the slightest wish

anyone

except myself would do