I Should've

Inspired by "Mess I Made" by Parachute

I should've stayed where I was...

I should've grabbed you by the wrist and pulled you back into my arms..

I should've been the shoulder for you to cry on...

I should've stolen all your tears...

I should've held myself up strong...

I should've held you up sturdier...

I should've been there to hold you tight, to bear your pain...

I should've been there to catch your tears and throw them up to make a rainbow in the sunshine...

I should've been there to catch you.

 

There are so many "I should'ves",

so many "I could haves",

so many "I would haves" and "you would haves".

 

There are so many "regrets",

but regrets for me,

they are not obstacles, they are what keeps me rowing.

 

Regrets are the shine to my sun.

They are the light to my moon.

They are the paddle to my boat,

the grease to my elbow.

They are the muscle of my arm,

the power to my brain.

They are the blood through my veins,

the tears that I shed.

 

Regrets are what I love the most,

it's that I've never looked down on them,

I look up at them and tell them

"some day I will be taller,

someday I will be stronger."

"Some day I will be wiser,

some day I will have that same glimmer in my eye."

 

Regrets are the things that make me , me.

The things that ended for me the sentences that say

"I should've"

"I could have"

"I would have"

and "you would have."

 

Regrets are not the mess I made,

they are the things that make my messes, tidy.

They are regrets,

My psychological best friends.

Author's Note

:) I never fall down, and when I do, nothing will hold me down.

Reviews

[Colleen a Bean]

I like it alot and I understood it and agreed with it completley great poem an dI look forward to reading more of your writing :)

[Melody]

Thank you. :) I'm so glad you liked it and could relate to it. Feel welcome to anything that I've written. :)

[Colleen a Bean]

lol I'll check it out

[ewest1220]

Ok wow! Way to blow me off my feet. For whatever reason this poem was clicking with me from the very start and I love it! The last line was a great addition. "My psychological best friends." The nail in the coffin of acceptance. Beautiful!

[Melody]

Thanks. :) I'm glad that you could click with it. And I really like that "the nail in the coffin of acceptance" Lol. Thank you. :)

[Satire69]

:(

[Melody]

O.o I'm sorry it's sad?

[Satire69]

regrets are always sad

[Melody]

Only if you let them be regrets.

[Skye]

I love the message in this poem, so uplifting. Beautiful.

[Melody]

Thank you! :)

[Sam Gregory]

I read this as a song, very nice indeed, very meaningful. But the first lines doesnt need the have in it. keep it up

[Melody]

Thanks. I sort of can see it as a song, myself. Lol. Thanks Sam. I'll have to fix that typo! Lol