Episode 3: If I Had My Life To Live Over

If I had my life to live over

I'd live it

Not give it

Up to safety

And the sensible way.
I'd make more mistakes

Take more chances

Make sure my troubles were real

And not imagined

They would then be worth the bother.

Comments

[Richard Dury]

have just been looking at your fine site and enjoying some of the videos, including this one--beautiful expressive voice range--and the defiant celebration of time passing (because that's what it seems to be, despite the hankering after a re-lived life: "If I had" clearly places this an an acknowledged unreality opposed to the full experience of the present, whcih the poem discusses and the reading exemplifies) is very moving. Typical too of the actor, whose art is all in the present moment.