Our lot in life can be of our own making or due to circumstance <br />And it would be nice so very nice to get a second chance <br />But we do not get a second chance to correct the past for the clock keeps ticking on <br />From the past we can only learn for the past is forever gone. <br /> <br />If I only did this or I only did that the failed business man say <br />I would still be up there at the top of the social tree today <br />But he cannot correct his mistakes though he can start off again <br />The past forever is the past and that fact will remain. <br /> <br />The hands of time we cannot turn back no matter how we try <br />The clock keeps ticking on and on the days and weeks go by <br />The years leave their mark on all of us and to father time we bow <br />And the past forever is the past we must live in the now. <br /> <br />If I only did this or I only did that how different my life might be <br />But time as ever ticks away and time did not wait for me <br />My past mistakes I cannot correct but from them can only learn <br />And in memory only memory to the past we can return. <br /> <br />Our lot in life can be of our own making or due to circumstance maybe <br />Though perhaps who knows a greater power decides our destiny <br />And though we cannot correct our past mistakes we can start and try again <br />Still the past forever is the past and as the past will remain.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/still-the-past-forever-is-the-past/
