Looking Back

Posted by Brad Osborne on August 26, 2021 · 27 Comments 

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If given some say by would be fate

Change things in my life, a second chance

An opportunity to skew my current state

And in some small way my life enhance

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If I could rewind to those biggest choices

Where I could choose left instead of right

If I had listened to the other head voices

Or just seen my world in a truer light

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If I had decided to stay instead of run

Or built a bridge in place of a wall

When it was finally all said and done

Would it really have mattered at all

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If I had decided to risk when I faced a fear

Or saved the love I so poorly spent

If each branch on my forward path more clear

Would it have changed the direction I went

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Or would I do everything just the same

Suffering over each pain and great fall

Not kismet or destiny will bear the blame

For in my own life I am master of all

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Would changing the past be benefit

Would it have made me some better man

Or must I accept history and be fine with it

That not everything went according to plan

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An easier road may have been sought

But would it change who I would be

I can accept what my failures bought

For they made the person that is me

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I would not want to change a moment

For when all added they create a sum

Each a critical and vital component

To the man that I have become

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