To Rise Again Poem by john tiong chunghoo

To come alive again
and if reincarnation
also rings true,
what terrible confusion
it would cause

what luck too! Poor Christ,
he would have to give
me a year to decide
which body to take from
all that I had lived

what a masochistic
task to undertake
- having to turn down
so many at one time
i would never even one -
without those knives
poking at the heart

rewritten from:

To come alive again
and if reincarnation
also rings true,
what terrible confusion
it would cause

what luck too! Poor Christ,
he would have to give
me a year to decide
which body to take from
all that I had lived

what a masochistic
task to undertake
- having to turn down so many
at one time i would never
- even if all hell broke loose