Be Kind, Please Rewind

Rewind the words
turn them into muddled
vocations
indecipherable to any ear
take back that look
replace it with a kind one
Fast Forward through the screaming
Pause before the tears
Rewind, Rewind,
past those things I said
I never meant it to be this way.
Stop the swelling background music
that warns of what is to come
press Play once it's all over.
but if you skipped it all,
did it actually happen?