Youthful Regret
Foolish youthful emotion rides waves
divorced from tempered reason,
a swirling vortex craves
hot passion for a summer season . . .
Spent fires prelude life’s bitter mosaic
by lies to self first born, prosaic,
shards of broken resolutions pieced in patchwork mirrors
where glittering alternatives reflect and pierce like arrows.
Release me from regret and self-doubt;
let the childlike spirit arise and shout.
© September 15, 2015
Faye Lanham Gibson
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