Scenes from the Journey: What Might Have Been

Sunday, October 14, 2018

A vain concept, "what might have been."

Eat yourself up.

Poison your memories with recriminations

of "if only."

Taint every part of your life

with the better version,

the Monday-morning-quarterback view

of what you coulda shoulda woulda done

if only you'd been smarter, richer, wiser,

less this way or more that.

Or: let it go.

Those paths untaken might be the subject

of a momentary pity party,

but going to that there shindig will get you

nothing but regrets.

Take the sweetness from the past

(those parts of it you can remember)

but don't be pulled into the underworld

of that non-parallel Universe.

There's a reason we call it the past:

It has passed.

Scenes from the Journey