Copyright 1998 -- Robert Baer Jr

A poem - "Time Machine"

Time Machine

I'm going to build a time machine
I'll step right in and disappear
And fall backward in an endless circle
To a different era and a different year

Would it really be so confusing?
To wake up in a different day
Would it be just what I needed?
Would this make all this pain go away?

I could find myself and have a talk
About everything that's up ahead
About the lies of a future lover
And make my future different instead

Would I believe what I'd be saying?
Would I believe that I'm really me?
I just don't know if I'd be convincing
Love is blind and it always will be

Would I scream out "Stop the wedding!"
As I watched myself go down the aisle
With the woman who would later betray me
And tell me "I love another" with a smile

Don't think I'll build a time machine
It would serve no purpose anyhow
It may not worth all that effort
Don't feel like building anything now


Written and submitted by

Robert Baer Jr
The Computer Dinosaur