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!

[An owl on the moon]

Your words bring us all that sense of our choices... some in wisdom and some in foolishness.. What we could do if we could go back in time. Yet, we only have today and tomorrow's journey. Thank you so much for sharing a work with such depth and wonder. Looking ahead now to what path might open...

[Havatara]

It's a good poem. You missed an apostrophe in the third stanza. God's instead of Gods. Just saying.

[StacyPerry]

"...Hind sight is always 20/20, looking back is still a bit fuzzy..." -Megadeth

I wouldn't want to relive what I have gone through, I don't regret anything as it has turned me into the person I am today and no matter what people might say, I am NOT a bad person, my downfall is I care TOO much.

I enjoyed the poem babe. Also the talk.

[FeliciaS (Poetic Prince..]

Good indeed

[LadyNaida]

Very nice! I think we all have looked back and said he, i could of done this like this, or this liek that. But we all learn from our mistakes in lives, without life's lesson's we would not be where we are at now.

[Luna Northstar]

Tate, another beautiful piece. Inspiring.

[Ebb and Flow]

Tate, as always you have such a beautiful lyrical style that I must envy. Beautifully written and a pleasure to read.


Krys

[Kelley Quinn]

Ohh this gave me chills. Excellent work, as always. I could feel the words coursing through me as I read them. Great words. Loved it.

[Lydia Blackwell]

Tate, i will give you an honest review. I LOVE this poem. I understand where you are coming from and I can completely relate. Somehow it helps to know that there are people out there who are going through the same thing. I've never found a place where so many people talk/write about their true feelings, instead of hiding them all the time. It is very refreshing. the only thing I would change, and i am sorry to say this, is the music. It is a bit distracting and I had to stop it so i could concentrate on the words of your beautiful poem. It is a wonderful piece and deserves the spotlight completely. (I do, however like a lot of your song choices!)

[Tia Sanchez]

Tht first stanza is s beautiful. Colorful. Awesome read.