What if
you were gifted
a second life?
Would you,
having sifted
time’s hindsight,
re-map the course
thus far taken,
and without remorse
sail dreams forsaken,
hoist new masts
on life’s oceans blue,
endeavouring to chart
a different you,
to brave life’s wild
and raging seas,
or float with mild
and soothing breeze?
What if
you were given
a second
life?
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hehe, I’d learn all the lessons from my past mistakes and then go out and make a whole new set of mistakes
Indeed 😀
I think I would probably end up in much the same place, haha! Nice one Bb.
Thanks, Adee – it’s difficult to know, isn’t it? 🙂
I have no idea, bb, if I were granted such a gift, I would ponder hard about my choice, and by the time I’d decided what I wanted to do, .. the time would have passed… 😉 Good one … xPenx
(still pondering!!)
ha, ha, Pen – me too! I would have paid more attention in mathematics classes, that I do know 🙂
Yes I would!! Ship ahoy!!
Love your comment, Kate 😀
This is a lovely poem. I think I’d probably end up doing most of the same things and making the same mistakes, assuming that I’m the same person.
Hello Tinman – which fork to take in that yellow brick road? 😀 thanks for stopping by
Lovely poem. Hell would probably be making the same mistakes all over again, with a sinking feeling in your heart that you had done this before. Like a time warp in StarTrek. I opt for a new course, lessons learned and off we go!!
I like your sense of adventure, Monica! 😀
I here you can get one on the computer ‘second life’ 😉 Lovely poem and interesting question – I’ll have to ponder and cogitate on that one – most of my big decisions I am happy with but there are a series of smaller things I would love to erase.
Thanks, Gabrielle – I’ve heard of ‘Second Life’ and believe you can even buy and sell fictitious real estate on it – quite bizarre, really. I feel pretty much the same as you, but would perhaps try to lessen the impact of those big decisions on others
It doesn’t do to think too much on it …
Too true, Cin
Ha! Love this one Blue Bee
Never believed in reincarnation when I was here before either 🙂
“Timothy Leary Quote”
Peace to you,
Laz
Marvellous quote, Laz 😀
I really like the sea motif you’ve used as well as your photos. Just glorious. What if? It’s almost an impossible question to answer. I would hope that if I did have another chance that I wouldn’t be so afraid to do the things I really wanted to do. Really, really nice!
Thanks, Selma 😀 Perhaps we are often afraid to do the things we really want to do because we ask too much ‘what if’ of the consequences!
undoubtedly
luv your music
Thanks, Sana 😉
I’m trying to live my second life as the second half of the life I already have. Or rather, am trying to recapture some of the things I let fall by the wayside along the journey. It’s never too late.
I absolutely agree, Zoë. I read an article on Françoise Gilot recently. She is 90, in excellent health befitting someone half her age, and as beautiful and vibrant now as she ever was – and still following her passions. She is a great example of how much living there is to do in the second half of our lives
I am reminded of the comment by Bilbo Baggins, in the Lord of the Rings. The ring gave him extra life, as it did Gollum.
Neither ended up being very pleased. Bilbo said it made him feel very thin and stretched. And both spent their later lives still being addicted to the ring of power.
So the prospect doesn’t draw me, BB.
But interesting ideas and interesting poem.
John
Hello John
Yes, as good as life is, and can be, the thought of doing it all over again is too exhausting to contemplate, so the prospect doesn’t draw me either 🙂
thx
bb
A second life is quite different from an extra life. I think most of us would do things differently.
It is, Tilly – one lifetime’s enough for me whichever way I look at it
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Thanks to lazywednesdays for a Perfect Poet Award nomination.
You can read her beautiful poem, ‘Outsider’, here:
http://lazywednesdays.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/outsider/
yes-I certainly do need some second chances 😀
I think we all do in certain circumstances 🙂