POEM: Might Have

By Trish Szymanski (c) 2010


Do you have regrets?

Do you wish
You had appreciated
More the plate of food
You had been handed,
Delicious, fragrant sustenance?
It would have kept you warm
Through winter's hard embrace.

Do you wish
You had not squandered
The chance to love and be loved by
A joyful, substantial woman?

Well, maybe you do
But what is that about?
Your empty belly?
Your soul, twisting in the cosmic wind,
its vacant sign swinging past
That dumb yawn?

See what regrets do?