WHAT GOOD REGRET?
Were it not for twists and turns
What paths might never emerge
What
Aims
Objectives
Performance goals
might consume
waking hours
Email threads
Text complaints
Newsfeed idiocy
Project plans
Endless dread of the
NOTIFICATION!
Red ball
reminders
for a child
who
never wanted this
dreamed of this
signed up for this
Were it not for twists and turns
He might have walked
A different path
Might have known
a different love
Might have traveled
Further
Elsewhere
Nowhere
Different maybe…
Better?
No guarantees here
Foolish thought experiment
Down-heartening
Dissatisfying
Emotional distraction
Self-disgust
Self-disdain
What good regret
of twists and turns?
What good regret
of life never lived?
What good regret
at all?
Save for the regret
of having lived
like he might regret
never having lived
another way
What good regret?
None, regretfully.
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Love-Peace-Trust
Vince
