Time Traveller... Poem by Mark Heathcote

Could a time traveller enhance his/her life?
Would it help them somehow better manoeuvre?
Or would it twists, some metaphorical knife
Leaping forwards into some distant future.

Would seeing what it holds help him pick his wife?
Would it help her find her one rightful suitor?
Ask yourself what benefits there'd be in store
Leaving all you-know-about.... What it illustrates

Here's the question, do you make the same mistakes
Do you over boil your soft-boiled eggs, burn your -
Soldiers, and still arrive late for work. Put skates -
On backwards, get eaten by a brontosaur.