You ask me what I want to be

I answer

    A historian

    A scientist

    A lawyer

    An artist

    A poet

    A doctor

I want to be one thousand people at once and live in one thousand places at once

I want to feel one thousand emotions and have them crash onto me like a wave

I want to gaze upon one thousand stars and I want to wear one thousand dresses

I want to live one thousand different lives and tell one thousand  different tales of every life I have lived, every person I've been

You pause

You ponder

   And then you say

      You have only one life, child

         But with it, you can change one thousand lives