If we could turn back the hands of time <br />What hour or day would we wish to go? <br />Would it take us back to what we felt a better time? <br />Of which we had already had come to know? <br /> <br />The past is where it needs to be <br />Not wanting to return to do it all over again. <br />It was given once so that we all might learn <br />A lesson only that once for us to spend. <br /> <br />The future is what lies before us all <br />Where we sometimes must travel it on our own. <br />And in its lessons we all can learn <br />What should now best be for then and left alone. <br /> <br />Turning back the hands of time <br />Can only repeat what once was done. <br />Taking all of what we've once enjoyed <br />And somehow removing now all the fun. <br /> <br />If God meant for us to repeat our lives <br />He would have left us where we all once were at. <br />Not re-creating all that was done before <br />And reliving all of what is now our past. <br /> <br />Look forward to the future <br />God has a lot for all of us to see. <br />He gives us a life of so many given days to live <br />And there after, to live with Him for all eternity.<br /><br />Linda Winchell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/turn-back-the-hands-of-time/
