The past in my life
has ended as the
last words of regret
no longer make me drunk
on its fine wine.

I said my apologizes,
and the words have
been well received by
the way you wrote me
back.

Now changes must be made,
and I realize now that
nothing is impossible.
I am not the youth I was
when I was a fledgling.

I have felt regret and
felt the sting of Cupid's
jagged arrows through
my chest.

I have been there and seen
it all when darkness
seems to cloak all glimmers
of hope.

I have been the poet diluted
in his own apathy and cynism.
I have been the boy and let the
wolf dine on my flesh.

Yet I stand alone with my own
doubts, but I can admit that
I have overcome them all.
I have become determined,
yet fearful.

I guess that is what it is to live
in the end.

01/12/2005

Posted on 01/12/2005
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