If I

By Richard M. “PEK” Gunn

If I could go back and undo

Some wrongs I’ve done along the way.

And know that wounds that I have caused

Were healed of all scars today.

If steps I’ve caused someone to take

By thoughtless ways in which I’ve trod

Have led to a confused estate,

Instead of simple trust in God.

If someone else still wanders on

Who flowed my unsteady track,

And lost his way for lack of light

Because my lantern globe was black.

If I could gather up and bind

The wasted years that I have spent,

And treat them as they’d never been

Today I’d be much more content.

I’m pardoned from my undone past

But even so the hurt is done

For out there somewhere in the dark

A soul is lost I might have won.