Monday, July 13, 2026

Beneath My Skin by Devi Nina Bingham



A life ago I was a starving Hindu scholar.

Before that life, a well-fed widow with sons.

In yet another, a French lord who inherited from his father.

In the next, I fought and died in the Mexican Revolution.


Once I was a prehistoric girl living in a cave.

Then a Roaring 20s flapper with a married man.

I have glimpsed my future where happiness is engraved.

Many lives knit together, my soul's master plan.


I carry all of them inside of me

living in Mexico where we lost the war.

From hunger and the cold I have been set free,

from greed and longing I suffer no more.


I know who I am

because I know who I have been.

I love the many "me's" 

that live beneath my skin. 


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