[Critique Group 1] LeonardsSubmission for critique session

[tuchyner5 at aol.com]

30 lines  minus titleand stanza spaces 


 


Hindsight or Foresight



           By



Leonard Tuchyner




 



 


I long have wished for better vision,

not just by eyes fronting my visage,

that let me know where I could go,

but also for eyes behind my head,

that I might fathom whence I’d come.

Hindsight, they say, is twenty/twenty.


 


Then one day my wish was realized.

I looked back to the paths of my past

and thought I could see forever.

All flashed before those eyes at my will,

the roadways flowing backward in time.


 


History must surely show what is truth, 

as honest as twenty/twenty eyes.

This postulate I took by faith,

but clarity faded in despair,

as I learned history often dares.

Truth goes awry like some stories may.

I learned that twenty/twenty is

a fable as false as old wives’ tales.


 


Alas, I discovered hindsight to be 

catchable as a serpent’s tongue 

that flickers in cloudy moonlight,

with lesser credibility 

than tarot cards’ or tea leaf grounds’

claims to discern the future clearly.
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