REGRET & REMORSE

Now that it is over,
is there a lesson
to be learned from all this?
A bright side? A silver lining?

Only a lesson learned
much too late.
The bright side is black and
the silver lining is tarnished
beyond cleansing.

I never meant to break your heart,
but then you broke mine.

Sometimes you don't get a second chance
and some things you lose in life
can never be found again.

And I hadn't realized until I died
that your love was the only thing
keeping me alive.

May 23, 1994/January 2006