Time

If in reverse you could re- arrange

The components of a clock

Tick tock

Eeny meeny miny moe

In which direction will you go?

Knowing what could lie ahead

This is what goes through my head

Roe sham bow or make a wish

What would you change?

Now make a list

We all know this could not be done

My jumbled thoughts now on the run

Pick a path which way from here?

In your hands your life you steer

Eeny meeny miny moe

Forget the past and forward go

 

Author's Note

Interpritations are welcome. A confusing lymric ? or is there something more?

Reviews

[Windy]

I have no idea which way I'd go if the hands of time could be turned back. I at first thought confusing lymric but then after reading it several times I believer it is definatly something more. You definatly made me stop and think, " In your hands your life you steer....forget the past and forward go"...hmmm interesting, idea, thought. Good work either way to me. ;)

[Stella]

Nice. Well written. :)

[MissRed]

I like the "movement" this piece has. I just got carried away till the end. The topic, however, is something I know we are all familiar with, and it makes me think. Thanks!

[Dani California]

ha!! I LOVE THIS!

Free flow.... oh yeah... my fav!!!

hehe... lovely!

Time. Forward? Backward? Wow...
I'm not sure! Jump ahead to
what you know awaits you?
Or go back and do it
over again, doing it differently...
or LET IT GO and just GO!
Say what?! lol Let me
ponder this a bit....

Love this poem! Yep. I do..

[LadyLove]

I see we go forward knowing what we already know. Why rearrange the clock ? --it won't change the past even if it does go backward. We can't go back and change anything. We pick a path based on what we know of our past...and just hope (and even a list won't help here cause you can't change a future you can't see!) that we choose the right direction for our lives.Yes, we will have jumbled minds and thoughts run amok about what we don't know or what we fear...afraid of steering ourselves wrong. But forward is always a clearer choice. Do you fear the future or is the past more comfortable to live in in your mind?

[Mistral Bilgera]

Whoa, Lovely!
Actually, the first thing i noticed is the nice, jazz chant-like rhyming, and the playful words. behind All those technical stuff lies a wonderful interpretation of human desire to alter what happened in the past for the sake of the present, which is more like avoiding learning experiences brought by past mistakes, avoiding chances for personal growth...

the last line is the wonderful wrap-up. It's a good reassurance that life must be lived forward. :)

wonderful poem!

[Beka]

This is interesting to me because it's true...it's what we do.
Even though there is nothing we can do to change anything all we do is sit there and play over and over again i our heads everything that we did trying to pin point what we did wrong and what we could have done and then what would have happened from what we could have done and we play over all these different possibilities and we think about them so much that our minds become completely consumed by them and we forget everything. The present and the future. Because all were concerned with is what could have happened. And how that would make everything different.
Lovely.