Day 17, Saturday. Time Travel – where would you go and why?

IT COULD HAVE BEEN 1500 SOMETHING

If I could travel back in time where would I go?

Who would I see? Who would I know?

America wouldn't even be a country quite yet,

The year would be 1500 something I bet,

To whom would my allegiance be sworn?

If 1505 was the year that I was born?

Henry Tudor would be the English King,

How would I survive without central heating?

Oh the joy I think to realize this land,

Long before my living even began,

Would I inspire this fickle sovereign,

To change history to something decidedly foreign?

And if I came to see this dream come true,

Would I be happy there or would I be blue?

Would Henry really love me if I gave him a son?

Or would it be off with my head when the whole thing was done?

It's easy to believe even with all the facts,

That I could live there with him and never look back,

Surrounded by the court and all of its gossip,

But could I survive being in the king's pocket?

Would he fall in love at first sight the moment he saw me?

Would our passion burn so bright re-writing history?

It's easy to dream about what could have been,

Especially when you don't know how you will sin,

Chances are I would Have wound up like poor Anne,

And my life would be dead before it began,

Coming not to the court through noble birth,

People of England laughing I don't share their mirth,

I would probably end up in some English Brothel,

Wondering where I went wrong living in a hostel,

Laying with the nobility for the coin to be spared,

Hoping and wishing that somebody cared,

So time travel for me is no longer appealing,

When I think of all that could happen its very revealing,

So I think I will just stick to the time I am given,

And continue to live the life that I choose to be living.