For Just An Instant

ruefully wistful

Could we go back….for just an instant
How would we choose just where to go
So many places…so insistent
How would we ever know

Where to start, we’d likely muse
Just where that instant
Should be used
And how that it should end

Too many instances
So many mistakes (in my case)
Cringes and winces
o’er so many heartbreaks

Could I go back…
E’en just for an instant
I’d fill that instant
With love and care

Though there’s “Oh so many…
Far, far, too many!”
Instances…
For me to share

If I could go back…
make different choices
Listen more closely
To different voices

Perhaps I would not
Want to go back
Perhaps what I did
Was the best I could do

But had I the choice to go back
and I could…e’en just for an instant,
In a heartbeat, I would!
But pray tell would you?

Author's Note

Look at this one! (but just for an instant!)

Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

If i could only go back in time
to correct the sins of my youth
I could tell him to be like me
and know I was telling the truth

Yes I would do it .

[Marie]

Go back again...and make the same heat-breaking mistake...?...that led me to attempt suicide...put me in the hopsital...destroyed the life I had...?

In a New York second I would.

[Glen]

David, the flow and use of language is incredible....you say so much in so few words and all done so beautifully. I appreciate your gift.