Time n' Life

The moving finger

sometimes does go back

not to rewrite for it can't

but to re-read

It comes across vague occurred incidences

which back then were deriguered as "right" 

but with the passage of time 

and in it’s whole form today

seem derisory or dismissive

Beguiled by life's contrariness -

of "If only" this or that

on such and such a time

had varied by a minute or a second

or something done undone 

and “perhaps” something undone done

this world would seem a different place

for "if-only's" and "perhaps" seem to be siblings

stated as "reasons" in our minds

For those who don’t know that 

Life is a rigmarole of smiles and tears

encompassed in an ocean of emotions

where -

there is no one to augur of what is to come

but,

the only thing obvious

is the inevitable death

This is the ELM OF LIFE!