Choices

The dream is empty now
Since you've been gone.
Life is still and quiet
Ever since I've done you wrong.
Each time that I see you
I reflect back to yesteryear.
And I remember how good it felt
When I held you near.

Oh, the choices that I've made
Ain't worth this price I've paid.
Yes that's true.
And when I see you about
It tears my heart inside out.
I really miss you.
Yes I do.
Yes I do.

There's not a day
That slips easily by.
When I just don't think of you,
Lord knows that I have tried.
The chance that I took
Was a chance that I had to take.
Yes I have made my own bed,
Now I live with that mistake.

Oh, the choices that I've made
Ain't worth this price I've paid.
Yes that's true.
And when I see you about
It tears my heart inside out.
I really miss you.
Yes I do.
Yes I do.

I want to call you,
But I can't get up the nerve.
This time I really hurt myself-
I got what I deserved.
It's an awful feeling,
Knowing that I blew my chance.
Oh, what I wouldn't do
Just to have one more dance.

Oh, the choices that I've made
Ain't worth this price I've paid.
Yes that's true.
And when I see you about
It tears my heart inside out.
I really miss you.
Yes I do.
Yes I do.

B.G. Wetherby
Enchanted Mountain Poems