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Time Machine

The Time Machine is built and ready to try
Final preparations complete ready to say goodbye 
I would travel back to the day I was born
The machine fires up sending me airborne 
The next thing I know I am transporting my mom and myself from the birthing room
Looking at myself flashes great memories of days gone by
Now that I am seventy looking at me as a newborn I start to cry
I wonder what it would be like to start life over again
How would I change things from what it was like back then 
Suddenly an alarm goes off it was just a dream
It just goes to show things are never like they seem.

Copyright © John Campbell | Year Posted 2023

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Kim Rodrigues Date: 10/10/2023 6:14:00 PM Would we change things…would we be the same, better, worse…who knows…so we find the machine and go back again and try to make the same mistakes that made us think twice and made us wise…who knows Login to Reply John Campbell Date: 10/10/2023 7:16:00 PM Your right Kim no one knows perhaps it’s better that way.

Mark Hughes Date: 10/10/2023 8:06:00 AM A question of intrigue, return to the beginning, makes you think. Nice John! Login to Reply John Campbell Date: 10/10/2023 7:14:00 PM Thanks Mark

Karen Jones Date: 10/9/2023 11:57:00 PM I like this. Engaged me until the end. Login to Reply John Campbell Date: 10/10/2023 7:14:00 PM Thanks Karen appreciated the kind words