Another Time and Place (April 24, 2012)
By Allan Thomasson


I'd like to live my life again;
I don't know where. I can't say when.
But if I could, 'tis understood;
The things that I could change, I would,

To plan our ways for better days,
Improve the world, with no delays.
Why, in all practicality,
I have that life in front of me!

I could start now! My head I bow,
Because my mind did not allow
My thoughts to be on things so near;
And something has become quite clear:

Some other time? Some other place?
I see them right before my face.
My next step, then the next, and on
Till all my years of life are gone.

I should have started long ago,
When I was going to and fro,
To ease the suffering, toil, and strife.
How will you use your years of life?