The Error of My Ways

My rendition of my inner self.Graphite on canvas.

 

Every sweet life flowers golden

mixing old colors in with the new

Creating a wonderful child each time

of a mixed ever changing hue

 

My life has been both heartache

along by spirits of love in rain

Tossed up around and foundered

with the dreams I cannot attain

 

As I recall the lost soft beauty

of aching spirits in still delight

I looked to God's sweet Heaven

with thoughts that stir the night

 

For life's time waits on none of us

it masters fate with earnest callous

Caring for none in favored mercy

helping not whom it shows malice

 

But I shall have known wisdom

with his brother mighty pain

As my friends they so haunt me

with joys I'll never know again

 

I walked the earth so emboldened

in my brazen younger days

That I missed chances so golden

for the poor error of my ways

 

 

Author's Note

I'm sure given the same circumstances and life. I would do the same things again. Such is the truth of humanity. We do not think much on the truths of life until we are made to. If only we could live life backwards. I think I would like to be Benjamin Button.
Tate

Reviews

[Stacey]

This is a very tender verse....and again BRAVO on song choice:) Time waits for no one is so very true, when you added "it masters fate with earnest callous" you set the tone of this write beautifully. All the times we hurt, hurt another or tumble and fall on our path I think is what makes the rest of our journey a wonderful ride and pleasant to the soles of our feet. I would love go back in time and right some wrongs, but then again if I did not have those experiences I would not be the wise woman I am today. Wonderful write!

[Bear]

Fine write!! Sure there are times in life we may wish hadn't happened, that we could change/erase but, ten again... if that key altered... we might not be "who we are". Sure mistakes are made but, that's just human nature; ain't it? ;~) your write sure has me thinking; reflecting and I think I'll agree with the "back-ground song"... I'd make the same mistakes again and enjoy life as it comes.

[Mauricio Montoya]

great write well done I like this piece.

[Coyote Poetry]

I would do many things different. Life is a road for education and if we are lucky. We may get smarter. I like the feel and emotion of your words. A outstanding poem.
Coyote

[Cassandra D.]

Great as always.
thanks for sharing

[Adora.xo]

I loved this piece. It's relatable, it flows, and its filled with emotion. The song is also very good. Bravo love, bravo!

~Adora

[Ladysue]

wow, this is so profound. I love the song too. It is hard sometimes to look back. We can only go forward. A melancholy feel to this, but so exquisitely expressed... It touched me...

[Sweet_pale_cacophony]

I can feel your angst...there are so many mistakes i wish i could undo...so many events i wish never would have passed me by,i yearn for the innocence and joy of my childhood days.Yet i am where i am and i am what i am due to all the people i have met in my life all the heartbreaks i have endured...all we can do is to accept life as it is and it is never too late to mend some of our errors...tho i know my friend it is easier said than done *hugs