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Time Travel By James Keefe September 26, 2007 Time travel should not be easy, Especially to the past for then Nothing could ever be finished. You would leave your lover, Then recant and return to Just before you left and stay. Or, you'd go back to that time When you didn't know what to say Until later, and make the perfect reply To the one who hurt you. You would later decide you Didn't really mean that either And go back again to say something else — Something kind. If it ever got to be later, Since you'd go back again and again Trying to say what you wished you'd Said the first time. Better to travel to the future, Skip over the ugly now, Avoid all the pain of leaving The one you loved in the past. If there is a past. Einstein knew the future is better — A few hours at light speed and you're centuries Away from your troubles. But if, as the physicists say, Every electron's choice creates a new universe To play its life across space and time, It might be ok to have all the options. And discover truly what life with the Red-headed girl you touched In the back seat of that car in 1961 Turned out to be like. Or to take that job in Puerto Rico Instead of the one in Illinois, Watching the sands of your life Run out On the beach Down the hill from San Juan. About the author: Just an old country boy - but with an English major! | | | |
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