One's Past Is Always There Poem by Ray Hansell

Standing in the shower
As the water sprays my face
I somehow wish right now
I could be in a better place

Lately my life it seems
Is getting the better of me
Too many memories from my past
Just won't let me be

I know that in my youth
I did some awful things
I wish I had the power
To turn loses into wins

But I think it's kind of late
To change what happened years ago
I should have realized back then
That one day these emotions would show

I though of no one else
I was consumed with only me
Now here I am years later
Only now beginning to see

That the life I lived back then
Would come back to haunt me one day
Wishing somehow I could
Wash away my evil ways

I wonder if saying I'm sorry
Would even work at all
They probably hang up the phone
If I were to call


9-19-20/RjH