I don’t believe in karma,

But I do believe in life,

The way it brings to the knees

In repeating ways.

We are playing on repeat,

And don’t know it.

Always believing

We can beat the odds.

(We don’t.) Better to think

We can do better than the past.

I feel the pain blasted

Through the generations.

Unnamed ways to suffer.

But not now, no,

Not now.