Questioning Summer

Should one celebrate life or death, beginnings or endings?
If offered a chance to start over or end well which would the option be.

To re-experience the pain that it took to get where you are now
or finish what you have left in a style and fulfillment you think deserved?

A question for both the young, the old, the middle aged.
A quandary of feelings, better decisions could be made but random outcomes remain.

You would not have the knowledge gained from missteps and errors
but also not the pain and anguish that were their bane.

Would your passions be the same should you start over?
That on which your life revolves might not even exist in the future alternate.

Looking back upon the years I would choose to go forward.
My scars and wrinkles earned by fire and struggle never ending.

Would you sacrifice the first moment your eye met theirs
For a chance to mend the broken years?

Sacrifice last night's passion and throes
for crisp clean sheets and the morning alone.