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
- Bishop’s Caundle by William Barnes
- A Woman Waits for Me. by Walt Whitman
- The Gardener LXXVI: The Fair Was On by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Веселая покойницкая
- Юнна Мориц – Вместо сноски
- Prayer—O Thou Dread Power by Robert Burns
- Epitaph On Johnson by William Cowper
- “`Were I a Poet, I would dwell” poem – Alfred Austin
- September by Ted Hughes
- Purgatory by Maxine Kumin
- Frogs Eat Butterflies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs by Wallace Stevens
- Sonet 34 by William Alexander
- Dust of Snow by Robert Frost
- Алексей Толстой – Рука Алкида тяжела
- Pañuelos de La Alhambra by Mara Romero Torres
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