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!

[emmajoy]

Firstly, that photo of the boy on the swing is just wonderful, wonderful, wondeful - love it to pieces! As for pensive you .. well, I wonderful what you're thinking of, maybe the words of a new poem ..

Surely there's something about living a life that's inconsistent that makes an adventure for any and every person. We live life in its experimental form, nothing being perfect. We're all the places we've ever been, the people we've ever met .. not my words but wise.

You've a very genle way of putting thoughts, subtle you are: ' My life has been both heartache ~ long by spirits of love in rain ~ Tossed up around and foundered ~ with the dreams I cannot attain '

[Taylor H.]

You need to fix your playlist but other then that this is really good :)

[WriterSki7]

ABCB, stantard flow. Alas; so do we all regret the errors of our ways. But sometimes we never make the other choice, instead sticking to our gut and hoping for the better. It is the flavor that makes us all human; is in and of itself a treasure. Just like the words so writ upon this page. A good job, Tate.

[N.E.T.]

Wow again I love this! You are a master at lyrical prose - I am again so impressed. How beautiful is this collaboration of words and emotions?! Thank you for sharing this - it is truly lovely...

[Scarlet Pulse]

My breath is taken away every time I read one of your poems. It just amazes me how your choice of words always work together into beautiful lines and messages. I have to tell you that most of your poems have brought tears to my eyes. They are overwhelmingly powerful and great. Amazing write, as always Tate.

[Star Wolf]

That's always a sad situation and we always realize it when its too late.
Very nice write.

[Shellie]

Very good, its nostalgic as well as reminiscing.... hearkening back to the good and thinking fondly of the errors that you admit as we all would probably do it again the same way!!!! its a really good piece.

[Ryan Falzon - Tymon]

Beautiful as always! Makes you start wondering on the past.

[LonelySoul]

if we could go back in time,what would we re-arrange?
to know what we know now,what should we change?
mistakes we make along the way,
have made who we are today,
what's wrong or right,who's to say?
so I just do my best and live for today,
and learn from the past like it was yesterday...LonelySoul