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
- Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver
- On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester poem – John Milton poems
- Lineage by Ted Hughes
- Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Highland Mary:
- Иван Бунин – Норд-ост
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Наталья Хрущева – Бабушка рыцаря
- Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled by Robert Burns
- Владимир Британишский – Молодой Толстой
- seaport.html
- Такахама Кёси – Кончик трости моей
- The Rowers by Rudyard Kipling
- O You Who’ve gone on Pilgrimage by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonnet 05
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