My One Regret Poem by Randy McClave

I still remember that one fateful day
Now in life, I have just one regret that I will ever say,
I still remember it as though it was yesterday
Sometimes in my mind that scenario still will play.
I was so happy when I first saw you
You later told me that on that day that you were happy too,
I knew for you that there was nothing that I wouldn't do
And I was then so happy, that you I knew.
I do not ever regret you coming to my house
I was divorced and I was still timid as a mouse
And I do not regret saying the last woman there was my ex-spouse,
And I still remember your pretty smile, and your pretty blouse.
I do not regret that we had met then
And I do not regret that you knew other men,
I never regretted that you later moved in
And I never regretted where you had walked or been.
I do not regret loaning you money as I constantly did
I do not regret being truthful to you, and if I wasn't may God forbid,
From you my emotions, I never did hid
My past thoughts of you I could not ever rid.
I do not regret from treating you special and good
I do not regret taking you to church with me as I should,
And I do not regret treating you the very best as I could
And I do not regret proudly bragging about you to others as I stood.
I do not regret us spending those holiday's together
I as a single man, and you as a caring, loving mother,
To my house you brought your daughters, and their brother
And I do not regret that for dinner, you invited another.
I do not regret that you brought me pain and strife
I do not regret that at all in my life,
Though I am sad that I never asked you to be my wife
At that time with joy and happiness it was rife.
Now I do not know if you're still a blonde, or maybe a brunette
Information about you I have not wanted, or kept,
But, sadly of course I have one saddened regret
I regretted that I fell in love with you, when we first met.

Randy L. McClave