What Might Have Been Poem by Barry Middleton
What Might Have Been
the poison is irresistible
everyone must taste it
regret is too insatiable
to enforce abstinence
cursing the compulsion
condemning weakness
we grieve imagination
what might have been
we rage at lost dreams
foolish empty hungry
the finer sentiments
can never compensate
we caress the bitterness
seizing a lethal chalice
hemlock dark distilled
black and deadly malice
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