What If You Could? (Would You?) Poem by David Whalen

Could you undo what has been done
What would the world be like tomorrow?

Could you simply lose what’s been so hard won
Would there be more happiness, or more sorrow?

Had you chose a path, that you chose to shun
Would your world be the least bit brighter?

Had you lingered in shadow, or basked in the sun
Would the load that you now carry be lighter?

Were you offered the chance to go back in time
Would you refuse, vacillate, or be eager?

And if you eagerly opted for that second chance
Would the returns be rich or be meager?

Would you trade your same old tomorrow for a brand new today,
If you knew not what the new day would bring

What if the new day today was much like the same old tomorrow?
Would the new day’s delight, in sorrow take wing?

If you could tear out the pages of the diary of your life
And new pages, beg, steal or borrow

If you could undo what already tis done
What would your world be like tomorrow?