Wake of the Wind

Reflecting on Life

If we could live our lives again
And employ all we have learned
Could we avoid mistakes and pain
And save the chances burned?

Would we know that as we rush around
And in chances that we take
Many lives are tossed and changed
In their tumble in our wake?

Could we find the higher road
And make excellence our goal?
Or would we squander every chance
To add fiber to our soul?

Would our friends be very different
From the ones we chose this time?
Would we sing a different tune
Would we think in different rhyme?

Are we fated as some believe
To live our lives the same?
Are our paths all preselected
With no options to the game?

I would surely like to think that
If we had another chance
We would choose a brand new course
And would learn a different dance

Wisdom would come sooner
Our strengths would quicker grow
We would be more kind and tender
To those we came to know

We would share instead of taking
And make every day a shrine
To the thing we simply can't control,
The constant tick of time

But we'll never know for certain
What we might add or would rescind,
The answers are too hard to grasp
In the wake of our own wind.

Don Hardy