Reciting the Alphabet

A is the first letter of the alphabet
and we have to travel a length
of rope before we reach Z.
Can we recite our life,
like children reciting the alphabet,
from A to Z then to A again
until we are sure of what is to come
before we reach Z?
Just so to know
what should have been.
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15 November 2005
(revised 2 August 2006)