I have walked through life and seen much but still I was blind.
I have sought knowledge and wisdom, but what did I find?
I found that an increase in knowledge and wisdom, is surely an increase in sorrow.
So now I live off the hope of a brighter tomorrow.
With my gain, there was a greater price to be paid.
With the knowledge and sorrow of all the mistakes that I made.
I dug a hole and jumped into this great pit.
Knowing what I was doing yet believing I could always get out of it.
And now I travel through life feeling I am surely lost.
Looking back knowing I was a fool, for paying such a cost.
But the fool who knows what he is, does not have to be such, for good.
He can still change his future if only he would.
Yet we hang on to what we know and are afraid to release,
The ways we find, and so will find no peace.
If my foresight was half as good as what is now my hindsight,
I would not be here writing this verse tonight.
But I have learned much about life, and the mistakes we so often make.
I have also learned about the risks which we all do take.
So if I had it to do over, what would I change about my time here?
Nothing, for we only learn through our strife and sorrow and tears.