Oh rueful self-condemnation
How I despise you
Oh bitter sweet memories
Of time not well spent
Of melancholic retrospect
And Slovenly disregard
Down the path of mid-life sorrow
I await your other worldly charm
To a place I once was lost
I inhale the scent of innocence
Yet cough and gag from guilt
This place of passionate apathy
But I know you are nevermore Copyright 2016 - Joshua M. Pelton