domino effect for M 'lady Emmy

poem in rhyming quatrains iambic tetrameter

 

Domino effect

 

I sometimes wonder what I’d do

should it become possible to.

Just click my mouse and so erase

 all memory of former days.

 

Give me the chance to start anew

A pristine sheet on which to write

 A chance to stand back and review.

 what I got wrong what I got right.

 

I think perhaps it’s just as well

this is a choice we cannot make .

For insofar as I can tell

 I think it would be a mistake.

 

To try to rewrite history.

How could we know what to select

to keep or discard totally.

I fear a domino effect.

 

I think I would leave well alone

I would not change a single thing.

Too many factors are unknown

 to change one might change everything..

 

26-Oct-08

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Reviews

[David Lewis Paget]

I couldn't agree more, Piers. I too have often wondered what my life might have been, had I not been taken to Australia from Britain in 1958. But I have seven children, twenty grandchildren, and they would all disappear in the blink of an eye. Far better to leave well alone.
David.