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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2012-03-05 06:35 PM

I’ve taken time to contemplate
The way my life has gone.
Consider choices I have made,
Whether right or wrong…
I wallowed in self-pity
For awhile, and then moved on…
Content to die the way I’ve lived…
Defiant, and alone.

I wasted years, and wasted words
And opportunities.
Going anywhere I chose,
And living as I pleased…
Selfish is my nature
And cynic’s been my game.
Perhaps I’ve earned a niche inside
The loser’s Hall of Fame.

I’ve blown my shot at romance
It never had a chance.
While the Devil fiddled-
I did the sucker’s dance…
I look back in amazement-
To yesterday, it seems…
And nearly sixty years have passed
And haunt me in my dreams.

I’ve neglected people
Whose only crime was love.
And left them sad and lonely,
When push turned into shove…
I am not seeking pity, friend
The choices were my own
And find it quite amazing
At how the time has flown.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2012-03-05 07:41 PM

Yesterday was ours to live as we chose, we may or not see tomorrow but today is ours to live as we choose...James

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2012-03-10 01:17 AM

Everyone has regrets. I like to think each life is a learning experience.
Ida

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

3 posted 2012-03-10 01:20 AM

Well captured, we all look back with regrets but life goes on. Enjoyed.
Kat >^..^<

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

4 posted 2012-03-13 06:45 PM

I always love your work... but this may be my very favorite! It's going into my library... to be read again and again... thank you!

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

5 posted 2012-03-14 07:33 PM

"And nearly sixty years have passed
And haunt me in my dreams."

Wow, what a statement.
So true, so true.
The realization is the start to
correction.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

6 posted 2012-04-02 12:18 PM

Seems like you have made your choices and lived a life that you wanted, filled with adventure. Now you are talented enough to share them in poems with people like me.

Thank you for sharing.
Alison

MGROVES

Member Elite

since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

7 posted 2012-05-20 08:00 PM

and it took me 60 years to get blessed with the grace of god. but well worth it

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

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