General Poetry posted May 8, 2011 |
Regret afterwards
Compunction
by Amyna
You asked me to go on a trip with you And I did not because my mother was sick and old You slept all by yourself in our room Because I did not want to leave her alone Not once did you force me to do what you wanted But now I wish you had, even if only a few times. Why, oh why did you leave me all alone? Regretting all the time we could have had Together, doing all the things you wanted You constantly wished to have me at your side But you never were the demanding type. One day when I was going to my mother's room After a shower just before you went to bed I joked that you could pray in peace without Disturbing me, and you replied, "There's the Balcony too, if only you would stay." Now when I think back I want to ask you Why oh why did you not force me You had all the right in the world To demand of me what you wished But that was not the way you were. You asked for a cup of tea one day and When I came back I found you stretched out On our bed where I had not been so long With no demands you quietly went Leaving me with all my guilt and regrets. Now, years later I still ask myself Why oh why did I neglect you so Thinking I would have time with you After my mother went, but my love You left me long before my mother did. And my tears have not dried even today as I ask Why oh why did I take your time for granted I had not slept in our bed for five years Why did I assume we had the future To go places and do things together? |
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I met a friend of mine on a trip recently, and this is what she told me. She cried as she recounted it, fifteen years after it happened...
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