To Make a Different Past

There’s the past you have,
As well or poorly
As you remember,

And then, in daydreams
And ruminations,
Rise your various

Imaginary
Pasts your thoughts loosely
Tie to possible

If not plausible
Unhappened events
That might yet happen.

Sometimes these are pasts
You dread, but mostly
They’re your fantasies.

If only, someday,
Maybe, when you have,
As you have to have,

A different past,
You could have a past
Like one of those pasts.