hindsight

hindsight

hindsight is not 20/20

although it makes a pithy saying

hindsight is not a microscope

although it focuses the mind’s eye

hindsight is a type of telescope

we use to pull back the past over our shoulder

hindsight is the narrow delusion of memory

that reconstructs as best as we are capable

if only i had known what i know now

or i would do everything differently this time

but we wouldn’t and we won’t and we can’t

because hindsight is not 20/20

and foresight is a fool’s paradise

and sight is elusive and fleeting

all shadows and cardboard like a photograph

or a novel or the film everyone watches instead