I Need a Time Machine to Save a Life

[poe]

Although the poem is written as an admonition to someone(finally oneself). written in a conversational form rather than something highly structured or metered, the last two lines tie it up with a dramatic and effective resolution giving it dramatic poignancy. What is deeply touching is how the young writer wisely predicts the message to herself that she never got but should have from her own mother sister or aunt.