Time

If I could turn back time

Would I reach for the stars?

Would I follow my dreams

Or would I follow my heart?

If I could turn back time

Would I regress my regrets

So the problems I've faced

Would be as forgotten pests?

Issues and woes

And pains own embraces

With worry lines etched

On all of my faces

If I could turn back time

Would it matter or not

Would a butterfly's ripple

Change even a jot

Would all of eternity

Collapse in a mass

As I alter events

To scratch out my past

Would the world I know

Cease to exist

Ravaged and torn

As if slammed with a fist

Or is it all fixed

Immutable, designed

A line etched in destiny

No chance to turn aside

Does fate's fickle hand

Hang over my head

Writing my life

Until I am dead

Then turning the leaf

To a page blank and new

Does she turn her attention

From me on to you?