Regret is a thing that most people have
some regret things they have done,
what they have not done,
things that they said,
and things that they have not said.
There are things in my life that I regret
I wish I could go back and change
what happened but I can't.
I have to deal with what I have done
and what I have let happen, but you
should have some regrets about us.
You should regret what you have
done to me and to my dad
You should regret saying I love you,
then leaving the next day.
To me it seems that lying to your daughter
would be a large regret, but I can’t tell
You still say I love you even though
I don't think you really do.
But I regret what you have to us for you,
I regret the fact that now I go to bed
wondering if when I wake up the next day
will you be there to say I love you again
or will you have ruined the I love you
that you said the night before.
But also I have regrets of my own about you
I regret that I will never look at you the same anymore,
that to me you will always be the one
who walked out and never really came back.
I regret that after leaving four times you
are still allowed to be a part of this family.
But most of all I regret that I will always have
a view of you that is tainted by the things
that I regret for you because of what they
have done to us.
I wrote this poem in my writing class. The topic was obviously regret but instead of saying what I regret I went with more of what I think my mom should regret and the fact that I regret what she did for her. There is still some of what I regret but all of it is centered around my mom and what she did to me and my dad.
