Remorse

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. - Thoreau

Inevitability.

Showing neither civility.

Nor sensibility.

All roads lead there.

No matter.

Regardless.

Fate beckoning.

Destiny pulling like a magnetic field.

Against my protective shield.

My desires precluded.

My wants excluded.

There was no way to stop it.

Like a runaway horse.

So I tried to reverse course.

And still ended up second-guessing with ...

... remorse ...

Author's Note

"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh." - Thoreau

Reviews

[R.E. Ray]

Pete, as a fellow Thoreau admirer, I love the quotes. The poem (with the well-paired photo) speaks like a man of much life experience, perhaps a bit jaded from seeing too much of life's ugliness. I see myself in this work, always pulling against what my instincts tell me to do... because it feels better to go the other direction... until I realize the consequences. Good Y/T video, too. Powerful assembly of poetry, literature and music.

[Pete]

thanks r. e. glad you could relate. as i get older, i find myself doing more second-guessing and reflecting but perhaps that is a good thing - it means i'm more aware and conscious of the decisions i am making and the directions i go in. problem comes when we let it paralyze us with fear. you are correct in that i've seen much. we mustn't let it rob our innocence or steal our course once we've started down a path ... :)