A New How

If you could relive an ancient day, which day, which day, which day would you say? First kiss, first date Or undo a mistake? . Watch your child be birthed again Go back and unhurt a wounded friend? Unsay a word? Unbreak a heart? Undrink that first drink? Unscar that first scar? . Or would you go to another place Feel your dad's hands See your mom's face? Laugh with your sisters Let little brother win that foot race . Maybe pet that dog just one more time Hear grandma recite that old nursery rhyme Maybe take up for the kid that got picked on Or hear again for the first time your favorite old song . Or tell your kids you loved them again and again No matter what they'd just done or how late they had been But you can't go in reverse to relive any day What you would have done Or what you would say . But you can say now what you wouldn't before You can be someone new open up a new door You can make a difference in your here and now You can't be a new when but can be a new how