Poems About Regret
#regret
Poetry about regret and remorse. These poems about regret take us on a painful journey, exploring mistakes, missed opportunities and feelings of guilt for failing to act. We all have regrets in life, whether we actually did something wrong, or have guilty feelings for something which was out of our control.
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Love and hate
Contemplating, so frustrating...
So much on my mind.
The wars I've fought, the love I've sought..
The peace I've yet to find.
At any cost. I've loved and lost abd it cuts me to the bone.
I miss my son, and everyone, and I feel so all alone.
I analyze , and compromise.. til I often play the fool.
I take the blame, I hate this game.
I think life's much to cruel.
I try so hard to stay on guard,
Yet time and time again...
I stand my ground yet get knocked down and thats the way its always been. .
I crash and burn but still...
So much on my mind.
The wars I've fought, the love I've sought..
The peace I've yet to find.
At any cost. I've loved and lost abd it cuts me to the bone.
I miss my son, and everyone, and I feel so all alone.
I analyze , and compromise.. til I often play the fool.
I take the blame, I hate this game.
I think life's much to cruel.
I try so hard to stay on guard,
Yet time and time again...
I stand my ground yet get knocked down and thats the way its always been. .
I crash and burn but still...
#anger
#disappointment
#regret #shame
#regret #shame
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Domesticated
So he hurts her some more, then slams out the door... hell be back in an hour or 2.
And as the car drives away, what left there to say... its not like this is anything new.
So she climbs in her bed and she buries her head .. it seems this while life's been in vain.
And its so much to bear just to lie alone there,
As the tears fall steady like rain.
In her mind she keeps thinking, how low she's been sinking...
But her whole life she's felt such abuse.
She could pack a few things, leave a note and her ring..
But she knows there's really no use. ...
And as the car drives away, what left there to say... its not like this is anything new.
So she climbs in her bed and she buries her head .. it seems this while life's been in vain.
And its so much to bear just to lie alone there,
As the tears fall steady like rain.
In her mind she keeps thinking, how low she's been sinking...
But her whole life she's felt such abuse.
She could pack a few things, leave a note and her ring..
But she knows there's really no use. ...
#DomesticViolence
#escape
#manipulation
#regret
#separation
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Blood Divide
"My pain is greater!"
"No. mine is"!
"No. mines is"!
"Nuh, uhh!"
"Yea you’re right?"
"No,you are"!
Can I cry for you?
In the future. I died for you.
Sister.
Brother.
I’m sorry they got me.
I’m sorry the only time my color blinds work when Im out of Orbit.
I’m sorry that the white sheet ghost of my past empowered me with wrath.
I’m sorry that my tornado got you in its path.
Don’t hate me, and I love you,
Don’t hate them,
because we...
"No. mine is"!
"No. mines is"!
"Nuh, uhh!"
"Yea you’re right?"
"No,you are"!
Can I cry for you?
In the future. I died for you.
Sister.
Brother.
I’m sorry they got me.
I’m sorry the only time my color blinds work when Im out of Orbit.
I’m sorry that the white sheet ghost of my past empowered me with wrath.
I’m sorry that my tornado got you in its path.
Don’t hate me, and I love you,
Don’t hate them,
because we...
#friendship
#ImSorry
#regret #sadness
#regret #sadness
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Bottleneck
Gave a shot
At sobriety
Guess that just
Wasn’t for me
Three steps back
Into familiar regret
Two steps from hell
A manageable bet
Beer bottle necks
The only I can kiss
But she never
Gave her heart
So she’s
No one I should miss
At sobriety
Guess that just
Wasn’t for me
Three steps back
Into familiar regret
Two steps from hell
A manageable bet
Beer bottle necks
The only I can kiss
But she never
Gave her heart
So she’s
No one I should miss
#alcohol
#regret
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Love’s Cocktail
This lemon wedge,
floating in gin and angostura bitters.
Three words at the thin end —
and a wedding ring at the rind. Parched,
in Saharan dunes, by a calling sea,
refreshing rain, pours
rivulets streaming down the panes
of the cold glassed hot-house where I lie,
locked and shrivelled.
The brazen sun beats
while my panting tongue —
lolls.
floating in gin and angostura bitters.
Three words at the thin end —
and a wedding ring at the rind. Parched,
in Saharan dunes, by a calling sea,
refreshing rain, pours
rivulets streaming down the panes
of the cold glassed hot-house where I lie,
locked and shrivelled.
The brazen sun beats
while my panting tongue —
lolls.
#bittersweet
#emptiness
#frustration
#loneliness
#regret
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“No One Can Love Me” She Whispered To The Silence
I write to tear her name from my head
to hammer out a cliche with a near empty
ball point pen that I scratch too hard onto
virgin paper while drinking liquid
courage
use both as a mechanism to nail me here
prevent me running the streets
lowing at the moon
picking daisies
plucking petals with
she loves me
she loves me not
echoing off cracked concrete
her make-up was always done to perfection
she said it was to disguise herself from
the devil when he came looking ...
to hammer out a cliche with a near empty
ball point pen that I scratch too hard onto
virgin paper while drinking liquid
courage
use both as a mechanism to nail me here
prevent me running the streets
lowing at the moon
picking daisies
plucking petals with
she loves me
she loves me not
echoing off cracked concrete
her make-up was always done to perfection
she said it was to disguise herself from
the devil when he came looking ...
#regret
#rejection
#sadness
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wildfire
Wildfire
Fire, we fear flames seeking to obliterate
to cleanse forest and planes and the land
can grow again a new cycle begin.
There are flowers that only bloom after
a fire, got a name too, ephemerals can
cover mountainsides and hide ancient
ice-age painting in my beloved Peru
We are strangely attracted to to flames
wish they could rinse our sins
but we have great terror of hell's fire
We do dread the fire in humans heart
passion can be wonderful but also
ruinous and manifest itself as greed ...
Fire, we fear flames seeking to obliterate
to cleanse forest and planes and the land
can grow again a new cycle begin.
There are flowers that only bloom after
a fire, got a name too, ephemerals can
cover mountainsides and hide ancient
ice-age painting in my beloved Peru
We are strangely attracted to to flames
wish they could rinse our sins
but we have great terror of hell's fire
We do dread the fire in humans heart
passion can be wonderful but also
ruinous and manifest itself as greed ...
#jealousy
#loneliness
#regret #shame
#regret #shame
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Ready to walk away
I'm sitting in a parking lot trying to evade the fights.
You always say I'm problem I lose my shit.
Even tho it's likely both of us I'm going to sleep in this lot tonight.
I learned long ago to leave and let the anger from both quit.
It's hard to want to come back anymore.
I know we have more times of anger and sadness then happy.
I get tired of the feeling we'll never go back to the before.
I want to stay gone all the time when your home now.
Before the happiness seemed to become your bore.
I want to be in my kids lives as they have no idea...
You always say I'm problem I lose my shit.
Even tho it's likely both of us I'm going to sleep in this lot tonight.
I learned long ago to leave and let the anger from both quit.
It's hard to want to come back anymore.
I know we have more times of anger and sadness then happy.
I get tired of the feeling we'll never go back to the before.
I want to stay gone all the time when your home now.
Before the happiness seemed to become your bore.
I want to be in my kids lives as they have no idea...
#regret
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Heartbreak Reverse
I lie here broken-hearted
Realizing again & deeper
Just how deeply
I broke your heart
Is it possible to ever
Reverse a heartbreak?
Because I want to
Take yours back to
Before
I’d preserve it
Hold it ever precious
Never let it
Shatter
You deserve
More
Realizing again & deeper
Just how deeply
I broke your heart
Is it possible to ever
Reverse a heartbreak?
Because I want to
Take yours back to
Before
I’d preserve it
Hold it ever precious
Never let it
Shatter
You deserve
More
#ILoveYou
#ImSorry
#regret
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name calling
Name-calling
We who live in the west
do not see Israel as a colonial power
the last one in the Middle East
As many colonialists before Israel
this unlawful occupation will end
and when the dust settles, a new
the state will appear we can do business
with and hold song contests
Israel is the last gasp of this white
colonial mentality
So far, more than forty thousand
Palestinians killed in this miasma
of evil intent, but no one calls
Israel is a terrorist state that must
be eradicated
While Hamas, who fight...
We who live in the west
do not see Israel as a colonial power
the last one in the Middle East
As many colonialists before Israel
this unlawful occupation will end
and when the dust settles, a new
the state will appear we can do business
with and hold song contests
Israel is the last gasp of this white
colonial mentality
So far, more than forty thousand
Palestinians killed in this miasma
of evil intent, but no one calls
Israel is a terrorist state that must
be eradicated
While Hamas, who fight...
#jealousy
#loneliness
#regret
#rejection
#shame
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Uncertain
If what happens will be
If at all for e t e r n i t y
The lingering gaze of mutual contempt
without the truth of the unusual attempts
simple ratification smothering the flames
hidden meaning and old secrets within names
He whispers to me but I hear not
I wonder if he loves me
I guess I forgot...
If at all for e t e r n i t y
The lingering gaze of mutual contempt
without the truth of the unusual attempts
simple ratification smothering the flames
hidden meaning and old secrets within names
He whispers to me but I hear not
I wonder if he loves me
I guess I forgot...
#apathy
#despair
#loneliness
#love
#regret
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Straight Lines Never Followed
Straight lines are sometimes difficult to walk...Near impossible to follow...Especially for the addict. The one's who are angry...The one's who are misunderstood...The one's who are sad...The one's who are alone & empty. ..The one's nobody could love. Prisoner to a label of family structure in the making...Prisoner of self-image, trouble & bad news. Negative pages that crowd books I flipped through...Books that should have been burned, like a witch at the stake falsely accused. Peers thought I was inscrutable in meaning. Crazy & wild in demeanour and a loser deal. A label that can...
#loneliness
#regret
#rejection #sadness
#rejection #sadness
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