no regrets

standing here at the foot of the stage

the spotlight shows every sign of my age

i think about all the things i had to give

in order to live the life i live

you can't see the road from the back of a bus

you can't commit to love when there's never an us

they know my music but they don't know me

they care if there's four encores and not three

i think about a girl before all this begun

black t-shirt and blue jeans she was the one

i suppose i could look her up once again

but she's probably known a solid love since then

this was the life i had to choose

never gave a second thought to

what i had myself to lose

my body's aching and it's been so long since i've been home

another five hundred miles another arena with a dome

don't get me wrong

i'm not ungrateful

i just went where

i felt fate pull

Reviews

[Becky C Strukamp]

Your lines are so spot on!! Again, your chosen words speak loud and clear of love, one desired but something stood in the way though you appreciate the road chosen. I adore your poems.

[Abigail T]

"you can't see the road from the back of a bus/you can't commit to love when there's never an us" i love those lines! so powerful and heart-felt. in those two lines, i could really feel the poem, and the speaker.

my one critique would be to take some chances with your rhyming. try to create surprising and unexpected rhymes with words you might not normally use. it can be a lot of fun for a reader to perhaps expect the next rhyming word, but instead be presented with something new!