The Philosophy of Why I Can't Travel In Time

Time Travel

To keep your sun shining, to avoid the blue
I want to erase away everything that ever hurt you
I want to go back to make it all better
I want to change time itself

And as the day begins I wonder what I’d do
As the sun crest in the east
To send it back to yesterdays ago
Just to ensure you always smile
But I’d have to ask myself as I stand on the edge of yesterday
What would be, what could be, what are the possibilities

To travel back and correct the wrong
To heal wounds too deep to completely heal
To avoid the troubles that caused some days to be sour
To do so is the thought of a hero who falls to their empathetic nature
But would it be right, would it make a difference, would everything change

Traversing time is to hold the double edge sword on both edges
If you change your yesterday, you could loose all you desire to see today
You could save a moment only to watch it all fall apart the next
And if I take away everything would I loose you, would I erase you
My heart would weigh heavy as I stood on that edge
What would I do, what should I do, would it matter

With my love, my world on the line
I don’t think I could be so bold as to change time
I must try to heal the past today
To learn that some scars can’t be wished away
As much as I want things to be picture perfect

I must realize why I cannot travel in time
Because even with all that could be
I don’t know if any time could brace me with the possibility of
Days that would be empty without you

Author's Note

I wrote this about the philosophical issue one would have should they be able to travel in time, and assuming that possibility, try to change events that caused their love some form of tragedy, pain, etc. The best examples of this would be the Jewels Verne story "The Time Machine." No matter what he did, he could not change the past, only effect the future. He had to witness over and over the tragedy he attempted to change. Even if you could erase the bad, you would risk loosing all the good during the current time stream. The greatest torture would be suffered by that person who traveled through time because they would have knowledge of all the changes, and thus if things went wrong even with the "fix," they would be left with a even greater question too heavy for anyone to think of.