A list of regrets – A poem

 

This poem was written for The Haunted Wordsmith’s Genre Challenge,

https://thehauntedwordsmith.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/genre-writing-challenge-april-24/

Today’s challenge was to write a list poem.

I have also included the following word prompts:

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/delayed/

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/rdp-wednesday-book/

https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/your-daily-word-prompt-renew-april-24-2019/

FOWC with Fandango — Extra

 

A List of Regrets

I picked up the book you kept by your bed

I turned to the page, the last that you’d read,

I saw that you’d written a word on that page

I wish I’d not let the sun set on our rage.

The word that you’d written, next to the crease,

Was something you longed for, the simple word ‘Peace’.

Now I gather together the last of your things,

The book by the bed, your watch and some rings.

I realise with regret and remorse, I delayed,

Signing the treaty of peace that you’d made.

I wish I could call extra time on the past

And renew the love between us we thought that would last.

Now I sit here and list all the things in my head

Things that I’ll remember now that you’re dead.

 

Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 24/April/2019