Overcome

Some mistakes are
Not so easy to erase
Some linger
And haunt you
No matter what you’ve done
No matter what you do

As you try to forget
As you try to make amends
Sometimes forgiveness
Never seems to come
Sometimes you’re so much
Harsher on yourself


AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Submitted on August 26, 2019 for contest OVERCOMING MISTAKES sponsored by CHANTELLE ANNE COOKE  -  RANKED 1ST

angstintrospectionlongingnostalgiasorryfree verse

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Jeanne Mcgee

September 12, 2019 at 3:18 PM

Words true Line...Congrats on your win.

Line Gauthier

September 12, 2019 at 8:05 PM

Thanks, Jeanne. Much appreciated.

Probir Gupta

September 12, 2019 at 2:16 AM

Congratulations, Line for the first place with this great brevity ...

Line Gauthier

September 12, 2019 at 8:05 PM

Thanks, Probir. Much appreciated.

Regina Mcintosh

September 11, 2019 at 8:17 PM

Congratulations on your win. Many blessings

Line Gauthier

September 12, 2019 at 8:05 PM

Thank you very much, Regina. Much appreciated.

Ann Foster

September 6, 2019 at 8:42 AM

I saw this pass by again, and just wanted to give you a hug. It is okay. Really. We don't let ourselves go on things, holding ourselves so accountable. He just holds his hand on us. Like we do a small kitten... and says it is okay. It will be better soon. Then...it is. Just like He says it will be. And if this is not a direct write from your heart(on a personal leveled challenge), then you are even better at this than Shakespeare, as I loved this poem. Ann

Line Gauthier

September 6, 2019 at 8:47 AM

Thanks for your lovely visit and comment, Ann. I love your analogy to the kitten.

Ann Foster

August 29, 2019 at 6:28 PM

Yes... true words, grabbed, wrestled and wrote down...Excellence...in action. Ann

Line Gauthier

August 29, 2019 at 7:48 PM

Thanks for your much appreciated visit and comment, Ann.

Kim Rodrigues

August 26, 2019 at 9:42 PM

All so true! But we can’t let those thoughts win!

Line Gauthier

August 27, 2019 at 11:31 AM

Thanks for your much appreciated visit and comment, Kim.

Jack Horne

August 26, 2019 at 2:00 PM

yes, such truth here

Line Gauthier

August 26, 2019 at 10:18 PM

That is very wise, Timothy.

Timothy Mcguire

August 26, 2019 at 8:52 PM

So true Miss Line, I say sincerely I'm sorry and move on, I'm an old guy, whaada they going to do to me anyway? Life is too short to worry about it. My mistake teach me but they don't own me.

Line Gauthier

August 26, 2019 at 3:48 PM

Thanks for your much appreciated visit and comment, Jack.