Regrets

There were things that should have been said
there were memories that should have stayed dead
there were words that should have stayed in my head.
Sometimes it's like I am wishing too hard undo

all the things that have already been written and read.

I find myself wishing that I could make like none of it

ever happened, like I can just turn back the clock
un-throw that rock,
return the bullet to the smoking gun
still my feet which have already run.

There were words that should have never left my lips

there were lies revealed inside the mirth of my quips

it's like drowning yourself in sadness inbetween sips

from a cracked shot glass left over from one of my trips.

Sometimes I wish that it would all burn down

then I could get out of this unfortunate dirty town

but its like I have the gas but lack the spark

so I sit here in the dark,

I will wait here where I do belong

there is no fast car in this Tracy Chapman song.

There were truths that I should have told you

there were actions we could have taken too

but I stumbled, leaving them undone, overdue.

Sometimes it's like I can see us together before

it all began to fall apart

as if it could begin again

back at the very start, then I could remember that

I still have a heart, that even in a poem a dream can come

true.