If Only
by Mary Etta Metcalf
dreams flow through my head of days past
when youth could do no wrong…life wadreams s good
the freedom felt…the acts performed…were they wrong
how different life would have been…if only i had known
actions perceived…ideas run rampant…mind speeding on
falling into the trap only life seemed to know about
continuing on as if nothing was wrong…nothing at all
how different life would have been…if only i had known
things omitted in childhood…youth in the dark
as life raced forward as a speeding train out of control
and i asked…is there no end…where is the light
how different life would have been…if only i had known
i tried to put the breaks on…it broke in my hands
i cried at the fear that rose within me
groping my way through life…crying…what is going on
how different life would have been…if only i had known
End of the poem
15 random poems
- My Mother by Mahmoud Darwish
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Благодарю Вас за цветы
- The Fall of Jock Gillespie by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring by William Shakespeare
- Cologne by Samuel Coleridge
- Green Circle by Satish Verma
- Олег Бундур – Лагуна
- From The Woolworth Tower by Sara Teasdale
- София Парнок – Белой ночью
- Folk Singer’s Blues by Shel Silverstein
- Going for Water by Robert Frost
- A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts by Wallace Stevens
- A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats
- Marks Of Disrespect by Graham Rowlands
- Нина Воронель – Бабий стих
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
