Regret That Is Unrelenting Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

If I had known...
A hint or clue,
You were rushing to see me.
I would not have grown impatient.

But last I saw you...
It was you.
You were the one,
Who had lost your patience.
In one single breath...
You left!

It pains me now,
To know we could have met...
To forgive and forget.

I did come back...
To find a note,
Expressing your sorrow.
Expressing a loneliness...
I had felt,
Hungering in sleeplessness...
That greeted me in my emptiness.

You said you understood.
And you would be gone,
For good.
How could you?

I would reach out.
Shouting for that embrace,
That now seems to have been erased...
By bad timing.

I am now the one pining for you.
Intensely yearning.
With a regret that is unrelenting.

Moments like these I wish I could send away.
But they stay.
To beat in a rhythm my heart wants to hold,
With you again!