Regret

Regrets like thorns and needles

Permeating skin

Opening up interior realms

Welting all within

Words spoken that fell silent

Dreams left to late to chase

Promises bowed to wishful thought

Cut short by deaths embrace

Kindness and kisses absent

Surplus and silent haunt

Actions poignant moments

Like playground bullies

Tease and taunt

Words spoken in abstract anger

Thrown as knives

In self defence

Now magnified, ten-thousand, times

Linger and incense

A simple word, a simple sentence

Paused by bitter fate

Replayed and reconsidered

Deliberation comes to late

Day by day has no set limits

And love respects, no bounds

Time itself seems never-ending

Regret has no resolve, once found

Its tortured tie, lies dormant

Its initiation is preset

Flooding in, rousing emotion

The tidal lappings of regret

Washing away the shorelines

Of calming peace of mind

No relent in expectation

No yield in past

No end to find

Never leave a thorn or needle

In time they penetrate your soul

Segregating thoughts and mind

Seeking memories to control

Apologies reticent

Turn into barbarous spear

I love you, suppressed in anger

Grows sharper year by year

A last kiss, caress, left pending

Festers deep inside

Tomorrow is forever, dependant

And loves forsake, a cruel abide

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