Chance of a Lifetime

I pause with my foot on the threshold

For I have been given the chance

To return to the very beginning

Where love was a lingering glance

But if I should choose to step over

Then I can never return

To the step on which now I hover

No matter how deeply I yearn

Here is a chance of a lifetime

To fix all my ‘should have done’s’

I can go to the beginning

And live out the lessons I’ve learned

Then why do I doubtfully ponder

A decision so easy to make?

Could it be that I sadly wonder

If I’d simply repeat each mistake?

I pause with my foot on the threshold

For now I know what I will do

I’ll simply go on as usual

We’ve come so far, me and you

We’ve learned about things like forgiveness

How love will endure if we bend

And I’d like to think we have learned, dear

How to be true til the end

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Janet Martin