A Hundred Years

A poem about mistakes.

A Hundred Years

 

A Hundred Years

is the song that

I thought of when

I thought of us.

 

Tears would

 collect in my eyes

when I heard

it play on the radio.

 

I always thought that would be

our song to play in the chapel,

on our wedding day.

 

How thankful I

am that it never was.

Now I can see that I would

have been settling for less.

You weren't the best for

me at all, not even close.

 

So many people

 have told me

that I could

 do much better.

 

But I loved you,

to me you were the best.

You were all that I needed

and all that I wanted.

 

Now, I thank the stars

above that you left me.

What a blessing

 that day was!

 

I don't regret

our years together,

but that's all

you'll get from me.

Not one second more

will be

spent with

you.

 

For I've got a lot

of living to do now,

working all of

the time for you, 

was not good

for me

and my life.

 

Laughing at me out of spite,

for being stupid for working

for you all those years,

wasn't right.

 

The tables will

probably turn someday,

you might find yourself

 exactly where I was.

 

I hope she laughs at

 you too when it happens,

just for the

way you

treated me.

Reviews

[Pritesh]

Excellently executed!keep writing!

[nono]

So beautiful makes me want to go to sleep and just sleep wake up in 100 years I know that's not what this is about, and no one deserves this not even people who are murders! I like this though the heart is just one more way to get hurt. I say good rid-dins!

[Norma M Sutton]

Nicely said.

[Wicahpi]

Funny how when it's over the rose colored glasses
come off and we see the truth.