Pressing Rewind

An entertaining thought enters the mind

It rises from the recesses

Bubbling up like shaken soda

Spewing foamy, sticky liquid

Everywhere.

What if, by chance, a button to rewind

A do-over. For a second chance

To replay and change the events of time, adding a new spin.

To speak different words or maybe less

To ask better questions and appear confident

To sit on the other side of the couch

To face right rather than left.

The hopes, the dreams, the purpose, the plans

The enchantment and the allure

The grass appearing greener on the other side

Of pressing the button, rewind.

Or, perhaps, when rewound everything might turn out

Sticky rather than ... ?

Sticky and awkward rather than ... ?

And, maybe even sticky, awkward and seedless rather than ... ?

What if, by chance, a button to rewind

A do-over. For a second chance

To replay and change the events of time.

The clock's miserly hands refuse to reverse

This week will never submit to the last

Months are not fickle

Returning to August from September. Never.

The hopes, the dreams, the purpose, the plans

The enchantment and the allure

The grass appearing greener on the other side

Of pressing the button, rewind.

Please be kind. Do NOT rewind.

                                                               

DeRachel

Never mind if you fall far short of the thing you want to do. If no one else will say it to you, encourage yourself for the effort: "Not so bad." It will make the next time easier and better (Josephine Demott Robinson).

...but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God (I Samuel 30:6b).