CDXVII - What Might Have Been

dVerse challenges us to write a quatern.

Well, not one to duck a challenge, here is one.

What Might Have Been

We will wonder what might have been

If things had been some other way;

If the chance presented had been seen

And grasped, then embraced and tucked away.

Despite knowing it’s a waste of time

We will wonder what might have been.

Life’s a charade to which we mime:

The world’s a stage, the script’s unseen.

We live, as shielded by a screen,

From the actions on other courts.

We will wonder what might have been

But only as an afterthought.

It’s our want to lament the fall

Of the dice, thrown by fate’s machine.

Though it wont change anything at all,

We will wonder what might have been.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2012

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