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
- Tom O’Roughley by William Butler Yeats
- Verdad Innegable by Victoria Luisa Mora Paoli
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Москва майская
- Doggerel by a Senior Citizen by W H Auden
- Юрий Галансков – Человеческий манифест
- Written Upon A Blank Leaf In “The Complete Angler.” by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня дочери
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, шахтер! (РОСТА №894)
- Here, Sailor. by Walt Whitman
- Sonet 43 by William Alexander
- Вера Звягинцева – Моя любовь к Армении похожа
- Виктор Гончаров – Дождь
- Sonnet 11 poem – John Milton poems
- The Voice by Sara Teasdale
- I am only the house of your beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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