The Untold Truth of Hindsight

Emma Julian

Hindsight is such a beautiful thing 

how to do things over so differently again  

if only we were given that wonderful chance 

would we walk away quickly, or take that second glance? 

It’s these questions everyone thinks they know 

but if it were a true possibility, would you still go? 

To the party, the dance, would you still choose them that night? 

Like I said, that’s all in the beauty of hindsight.  

What you know now, won’t live if you erase what happened then, 

perhaps it’s wiser to take your scars, face your demons within  

or else you may never become as strong as you do not think you are 

if you simply chose to escape the pain and the hurt thus far  

life would be far more complicated if we all were faced with that choice  

gave into the curious traveling voice 

says “hindsight is beautiful, but ignorance is bliss” 

but what would’ve happened if we never kissed? 

I wonder, I find comfort in dreaming that we all do 

in a world where what you don’t know can’t hurt you 

by no happenstance does your life shape way  

amass to fate, the day to day. 

Would you change it at all?  

I cannot be sure I would.  

Hindsight is mysterious for all it is good.