Regret
REGRET
Angry words spoken
In a heated moment
Cut like ice
Chilling the bone
And scarring the soul
Can’t take them back
Or erase the sting
Can you receive
Softly spoken words
Of repentance?
To trust again
Is not easy
Decisions made in haste
Lived out with regret
Joy is abandoned
Only despair
Covers the soul
And obscures our dreams
With hopelessness
Suppressed longings
Lie hidden under
Layers of self-contempt
Can you receive
A divine solution
To free the soul
Of its’ delusion?
To believe again
Is not so easy
Beauty for ashes
If we can receive
mja
Copyright © Martha Allen | Year Posted 2011
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