“The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.”
“It was over before it had even begun”
“I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.”
“Back before her life had begun to unravel. Or before she knew it was unraveling.”
“There is an old saying "well begun is half done" - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, "Not begun at all till half done;" so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it.”
“I had an inheritance from my father,It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world,The spending of it’s never done.”