We Do Live To Regret Poem by Francis Duggan

In most of us there are memories in our past we would rather forget
The things in our lives we do live to regret
Perhaps an ill chosen word that did cost us a friend
And brought a good friendship to a premature end

How come our worst memories in us are the slowest to fade?
We pay in regret for mistakes we have made
We cannot change now what happened long ago
And that the past is just a memory happens to be so

To the stubborn young mind it would mean loss of face
To apologize for a wrongdoing that would take too much grace
But regrets do not seem to have a use by date
And when most think about saying sorry it is always too late

Most people fail to realize than on saying sorry themselves they also forgive
So a lifetime of regret they are left with to live
Some of our mistakes of the past in regrets in us live on
And it is all too late to change what has been and long gone.