"Those
Lost Moments of Regret"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
5/12/07 7:00 a.m. pdt
Remember
the shiny moon face beaming
from deep within the galaxy of kindness
Remember the endless questions and the
innocent search for meaning
Remember the false sense of something
which caused the wrong turns and missed opportunity
Remember the day's snapshot clearly
because it can never be regained in reality
And is only a frame of reference
for memory's soft chortle.
Time looks
askance at regret
And regret gazes into mirrors too often
The visage within the mirror reflects
the shiny moon face of elusive immersion.
The questions
from the past
hurtle quickly back
to the present with sudden pinprick pain
Opening wounds which will never quite heal
and sidelining the gentle smile of circumstance
The lost
moments of regret can suddenly appear
Giving pause to cognitive regressions
and unleashing torrents of soulful sacrifice.
Remember
the paths we have taken
and remember the byways we missed taking
Remember the youth which disappeared
and the wisdom which surfaced instead
The souls
of past conscious mistakes
and seeming malignant misdeeds
appear to us in perpetuity
and they forgive us out trespasses
and they smile for our memory
and those lost moments of regret
don't really seem to fade with time
as long as
we
Remember
Poetry
2007
