What Might Have Been, For Which We Had Not Time

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Teen Poetry #8

What Might Have Been, For Which We Had Not Time

pen&paper
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since 2006-06-06

Posts 513

0 posted 2008-02-21 01:34 PM

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'”

Inspiration;
Or a feeling synonomous...
Racks my soul, My very being
All that makes me who I am

My soul stirs
And rhythym; the occasional rhyme
My tragic, life-saving gift from God
(Known to the cynics as poetry
Rather than the puzzle pieces of a being, of a soul)
Brings the dormant light again to my eyes
The sleeping song to wake in my heart.

And so I ponder the quote above
Its meaning,
And its relevance to me,
Coming to the conclusion that
I may not be living
For everything that for which life exists...

What experiences have I not beheld?
The count of these so like the stars,
So many lives possible within one
There cannot be one road,
Merely one starting point and many possible ends
many choices each leading to another, another...

Is there no simple solution,
To ease my rampant soul?

It now seems the quote above
Mourns not the sin of indescision
But rather the inabilty
To experience everything possible in a life
Or lives...
Though we are given but one
So much to live for
But we had not the time...

Falling rain

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since 2008-01-31

Posts 2178
Small town, Illinois

1 posted 2008-02-21 05:27 PM

wow this is really good.

"What experiences have I not beheld?
The count of these so like the stars,
So many lives possible within one
There cannot be one road,
Merely one starting point and many possible ends
many choices each leading to another, another..."

I love that stanza! keep up the good work!!

~Zach~

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

2 posted 2008-02-21 06:09 PM

Enjoyed your story!

ARCTIC WIND

Dark Star
Member

since 2008-02-20

Posts 392
Lost in your eyes

3 posted 2008-02-21 06:12 PM

WOW!
Thnx for the read

surf_painter
Member

since 2007-04-10

Posts 434
Canada

4 posted 2008-02-21 09:34 PM

Hmm it was an interesting read I found it more to be a concept in poem form, I didn't find much flow but it was interesting to read

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