Regret

When you travel deep down in your memory lane, You glance at the sombre shadows of the past With hidden scars that tear you apart Innocent tears in dark nights flood your eyes The mistakes you made The raw desires you didn’t give a chance Are the two sides of the coin of regret We regret the words that we said The actions that misled Overthinking them in our heads But the wheel of life has moved on You see, the feeling of regret Is like an invisible dose of pain that you can’t abstain Piercing your heart With echoing sounds of silence choking you Turning you from feeling hopeful to hopeless The indecent fumes of regret Proliferate your insecurities And surround you by past mistakes It’s like a maze you can’t escape Because when everyone's asleep at night It’s the feeling of regret that keeps you wide awake But regret is more than just sorrow and shame And having ourselves to blame Because we also regret the missed opportunities Like the passions, we desired to pursue And no matter how guilty we feel Saying to ourselves that we’ll heal We continue to deal with it Having missed the memories we wished existed We perceive it as the end of the world It’s like a road full of foggy air As it’s pathway begins to disappear Because regrets blind us And hold us back From reaching new horizons And discovering what’s out there You see, once you let your soul free, You will witness a life beyond regrets Because the past shouldn’t define or confine your future And your rusted regrets shouldn’t consume your happiness And rather than you absorbing the wounds that regrets create Unleash the agony and defeat the pain The next time you travel, deep down in your memory lane.