The Time Traveler

I.

If I travel back

in time,

when all my failures,

all my foolishness,

dictated my life,

I’d be tempted

to change the course

I took in those dark days.

II.

I'd steer it with the knowledge

I gained

and guide me to choices

I should have made.

III.

But what’s the use?

Those days are gone.

I’ve moved on.

IV.

Life is better now

because of that

miserable past.

V.

So what’s left for me

is to look forward

And be a time traveler

looking forward,

instead of backward.