Regrets

I have loved, and I have cried

I have wept, and I have sighed

I've wondered about life passing me by

All the things I haven't begun

All the things I've left undone

I've wondered 

how it would've been 

had I tried

to put a meal in the mouths of the hungry

and clothes on the back of the cold

Do my bit for infants abandoned

and spared some moments for the old

Then would I have had the time

to mourn about what I couldn't get?

Would I have cried and sighed

and moaned and wept

about how life had passed me by?

I would have used the time

for things that really mattered

And I wouldn't have frittered 

a lifetime away

I would have looked back 

with a heart content

At least I could have said I tried


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