Looking back

while moving forward

is a tricky enterprise…

There are always more

might’s and could’s have been’s

than there are are’s and was’s…

No use to pine

about the road behind!

More than enough

sticky-out roots and loose rocks

hiding under the leafed-up path

in front of you to worry about!

“The way things are

is supposed to be

the way things are…

Stupid to land on your ass

over a might have been!

Sure enough, anyway,

it’ll give you a crick in your neck

and a twist in your vertebra…

Besides,

there are plenty of inevitable

“flat on your faces”

snickering, hiding, waiting,

just up the road…