If I could go back to when I was 6
I would savour every hug
Every kiss
From my dear mother
Who would radically risk
Everything just to be with her kids
If I could go back to when I was 14
I would only treat my family
as my only team
Friends and school were temporary
Oh how I would treat my home
As my sanctuary
If I could go back to when I was 18
I would treat my body as if it were gold
Making sure my body was unseen
Keeping my skin crystal clean
If I could go back to when I was 21
I would keep studying hard
As my world had just begun
I wouldn’t choose a man
That would drain my soul
Fall in love
Preparing myself for a story untold
A future that would be so hard
A struggle was to unfold
If I could go back to when I was 24
I would only focus on my child
And no one more
Cherish her young years while they last
And never look back into the past
Now I am 29
All I can do is look into the past
How relationships don’t last
Family will pass
My body is not so clean
And my heart is not so fast
Time goes quick
All the memories and pain I used to inflict
The wrong man I picked
To have a child to
My mind was tricked
One reason I do not regret the past
Is that I have my child
Without my journey
I wouldn’t have our love
that will ever last
I would still be wild and untamed
still living like a child
She is the reason I look back
And smile
Without her
I would never want to walk
Another mile