If Only
by Mary Etta Metcalf
dreams flow through my head of days past
when youth could do no wrong…life wadreams s good
the freedom felt…the acts performed…were they wrong
how different life would have been…if only i had known
actions perceived…ideas run rampant…mind speeding on
falling into the trap only life seemed to know about
continuing on as if nothing was wrong…nothing at all
how different life would have been…if only i had known
things omitted in childhood…youth in the dark
as life raced forward as a speeding train out of control
and i asked…is there no end…where is the light
how different life would have been…if only i had known
i tried to put the breaks on…it broke in my hands
i cried at the fear that rose within me
groping my way through life…crying…what is going on
how different life would have been…if only i had known
End of the poem
15 random poems
- On Flatteries (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Ольга Седакова – Как упавшую руку
- Омар Хайям – Красой затмила ты Китая дочерей
- Winter dusk at the railway halt by Sunil Sharma
- Between the Showers poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Jeane’s Wedden Day In Mornen by William Barnes
- Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain by William Shakespeare
- Олег Сердобольский – Зимний кот
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Vachel Lindsay
- Yaddo : The Grand Manor by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заключительная песня Кэрролла
- Владимир Британишский – Итальянское путешествие
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