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!

[Lena M. P.]

Very well written Tate. Congratulations of the book.

[Tate Morgan]

Lena thank u so miss hearing from u

[Renée]

Of course we are wiser now..we have experience...perhaps that is one reason for the phrase " youth is wasted on the young" to have regrets is human..to constantly repeat them is ...really not wise living is it?
Nicely Done !

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Renee

[Jvl narasimharao]

There is a great message in the poem. We do make mistakes but we learn from them and move on in the journey of life.There is grace and beauty in whatever you write.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you so much.Whenever I think I have a hard time in life I remember what it is to really have a hard time.

[Frieda P]

This is exquisitely poignant Tate, it resonates within my soul....

[Tate Morgan]

Thanks Frieda We have a lot to be thankful for. But should I ever get sight of heaven i have a few suggestions for the big guy On reforming his creation "MAN" LOL

[Frieda P]

Hahahah you and me both Tate, we should do a collaboration on that one! Lol

[Tate Morgan]

I agree it would be a meeting of the minds I would have to tell him If I were him I would not ask man to be a good father then abandon him on the third rock from the sun only to be the ultimate absentee father all the while telling man to raise his own children with love and care. Pfft!

[Frieda P]

Let me know if you get anywhere with that....

[Tate Morgan]

Might just as well tell a 3 yr old If he is good on the playground you'll give him a cookie at the end of the day.

[Tate Morgan]

Oh and "Dont play with those fire works while I'm gone but here hold onto my lighter while I'm gone You know entertain yourself for a few millennium."

[Frieda P]

Haha you're on a roll Tate...........

[Tate Morgan]

I can't be the only one that sees the irony in this formula. Can I ? You would think maybe he would visit when we made it from the blue marble to the grey one wouldn't you? At least say " Hey good job" I mean I go to my kids sports and I always am there to root for him when he achieves something good .

[Frieda P]

I'm not the person you have to convince Tate....I concur.

[Muse]

You say you are currently not inspired...surely there is something in your past you have yet to share? Think deeply...far far back...and take us there. Your words and music choices are like comfort food for any soul.

[Tate Morgan]

Ah Beth I suppose you have a point.I seem to need to go home in my mind and find my soul again .Thank you

[Seashell]

Now then you certainly would not want to be Benjamin Button Tate. What a wonderful tapestry you have painted, of the good, not so good and wonderful happenings in your life both past and present. I guess we all wonder what if this and what if that but we must be thankful for what we've got, and more than thankful for reaching every new day. I would like to go backwards to repeat a few things but look forward to things unknown in the future. You are a good man Tate and a brilliant poet. I'm glad Fate allowed us to meet here on WC
Thanks for sharing your wisdom, dreams and history with us
Babs x

[Tate Morgan]

I'm quite humbled by that. I thank you for being my friend as well. Thank you for reviewing The Error of My Ways. It's not always apparent why people meet. However befriending you has been a joy to me

[Seashell]

:-) .........x

[Singing Bird]

Not so sure Benjamin Button could do justice to that self portrait of yours. Depth in the art --depth in the writing. I see no errors just life so beautifully encapsulated in words. A different turn, a different twist, you may have been a different man. Luckily for us you're who you are....a talent worth following....
Your words spoke to me so of ex loves and dearly missed friends, of gorgeous children and children's children, and many more things.
Oh and I do so love to read it out loud....... it speaks volumes to my partner 2Bears, he so enjoys it.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you .You are too kind. I am so glad it touched your soul.From me to you it was worth the effort of writing it Thanks

[Singing Bird]

Ta. Glad.

[Joylene Miller-Rios]

Beautiful poem. We need to learn from our mistakes in order to better ourselves

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you very much as one who is further down that road i can tell you it is with angst that one looks back upon the road he has tread

[Veronica Chandler]

This piece holds a special place in my heart; for folly has been a friend of mine and while at times painful I don't think I would change a thing. If we had Benjamin Button ways we might just have appreciated the profound nature of life's moments as they arose. I met and loved a man visiting from Scotland we fell so deeply in love with each other, but fate had other plans.

[Tate Morgan]

Oh yeah i can relate to that We arent so different

[Ravyne Hawke]

Beautifully penned. "if onlys" do keep us busy. To go back... loved the song with this, was so fitting.