When

When is it too late to try again?
Now?
Never?
Ever?

Who wins, when you try or
don’t try?
And who loses?
And is anything ever
truly lost?
Or won, indefinitely?

I wish
I knew
So that I could share this with you.

Alas,
time is the only mistress that knows for certain,
and she is playing her cards
very close to her chest.

~Lu