Sunday, January 30, 2011

lives lived


how 
many 
potential 
lives
have I 
not lived
in this 
one


that I 
am 
living 
now? 






Poem © 2011 by R. Burnett Baker 
Photo © 2011 by R. Burnett Baker

4 comments:

  1. Is this not the question everyone asks themselves sometime in their life?
    I often have this discussion with friends....if only..what if...I wish...Most times with no regret just wonderings... what life would have been on different paths we turned away from or did not see
    nice thought this cold morning Rick

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  2. This one's sprinkled with a bit of that efficient agony.

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  3. Oooh! A brain twister. Fun to consider all those roads not taken.

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  4. Ahhh Rick, this has been the human condition I have tried to escape since I was born. The desire to fill one life with everything.

    But we cannot. Still, we try. =)

    Kane

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