Author: Reena Saxena

environment gone
no wistfulness shown by birds
just by bird watchers

for Reena’s Exploration Challenge

only if I knew it then
I would never let you go
that we’d never meet again
only if I knew it then
silence can cause such pain
I would let go of my ego
only if I knew it then
I would never let you go

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 105

Written In Response To:

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #105 – PROMPT:  “Only if I knew it then” – Wistfulness.

   Oh those “only if” or “if only’s” that at one time held me down in such unnecessary melancholy.  Through the many seasons of growing I have come to realize that the wisdom I know today would have been futile for me to know back then.  I was not spiritually enlightened enough to receive it. I had to go through those years of the foolishness of “spiritual bankruptcy” in order to grow into the wisdom of  “spiritual riches.”  

     Today I have learned not to dwell in the sad longing of  “what ifs” and instead use the lessons learned through hindsight that become the wisdom of foresight.  By doing this I have broken the cycle of insanity’s “doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result” to a sane mind…

Reenais the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge

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If only

Any sentence starting with this phrase

Can be hiding a world of wistfulness behind it

The what if’s, the if only’s are the curse

Which spoil many a moments and even lives

There can be only one reality

So looking for alternate scenarios is futile

What happened or happens has a cause and effect

No one has ever learned to go back and change it

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Wistfulness

Only if I knew it then (Wistfulness)

I remember sitting in a night club in my thirties with a friend and her sister and the subject of “only if I knew it then” came up on men and relationships with them. As with many, there had been some less-than-wise choices along the way for each of us. An epiphany struck then, and I said, “If we knew then what we know now, none of us would have gotten married or had children.” As we all love our children, we had a good laugh and then gave it a respectful acknowledgement.

Life is a package deal. The good, the bad, and the ugly come with it, no matter how wistful we get for a chance to re-do some of those less-than-wise choices. Life is a learn-as-you-go deal, and the mistakes are where much of the learning comes from. Having dynamic…