DAMN REGRET

DAMN REGRET

I was so naïve to that which lay ahead me,

Blinded by the moment I just couldn’t see.

You had that same lack of judgment in you,

And both us couldn’t realize it wasn’t true.

I should have never spoke the words I never meant,

And you should have never wasted the time you spent,

Trying to keep someone who really never cared,

If I’d just let you go at first glance a lot of heartache could’ve been spared.

But we trudged along a dead end road,

Knowing that one of us would be left in the cold.

You cried many of tears for me throughout those years,

For my ignorant ways, but in the end we both had our fears.

I place no blame on you for leaving me,

It was how you did it I couldn’t let be.

You put me through Hell that was your deal,

The love probably wasn’t but my hate for you is real.

You took a life that began to care for you it seems,

And pulled me along dangling by puppet strings.

Foolish was I to believe in your spewing of lies,

Now when I think of you my only feeling is that of despise.

Damn regret for so long I stood a broken man,

But believe me when I say I will learn to love again.

It took time and a new found sense of myself for my heart to heal.

And whenever love walks in, I’ll find the patience to know it’s real.

-brad