IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

Sometimes I pause and sadly think
Of the things that might have been,
Of the golden chances I let slip by,
And which never returned again.
Think of the joys that might have been mine;
The prizes I almost won,
The goals I missed by a mere hair’s breadth;
And the things I might have done.

It fills me with gloom when I ponder thus,
Till I look on the other side,
How I might have been completely engulfed
by misfortune’s surging tide.

The unknown dangers lurking about,
Which I passed safely through
The evils and sorrows that I’ve been spared
Pass plainly now in review.

So when I am downcast and feeling sad,
I repeat over and over again,
Things are far from being as bad
As they easily might have been.
G.J.Russell