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
- Minstrels by William Wordsworth
- Show me by Rixa White
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE by Robert Herrick
- Untitled
- To a Pupil. by Walt Whitman
- At His Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Некрасов – Весна
- Аля Кудряшева – Осень в городе
- Adam Armour’s Prayer by Robert Burns
- Владимир Бенедиктов – На гулянье
- Владимир Высоцкий – Куплеты Бенгальского
- Unlyric Love Song
- Юрий Галансков стихи: читать все стихотворения, поэмы поэта Юрий Галансков – Поэзия на Poetry Monster
- Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will by William Shakespeare
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