All A Waste

for those who tried, and it didn't pay off, so the reminder of what we deserve came back

I don't know why I wasted all this time

Thinking that it would work for me

You gave me hope

And I desperately held on to it

Maybe it was my fault

Maybe it wasn't 

I don't even know

But I thought 

For once

That I could have something good

Something amazing

Something worth having

Worth living for

But then I remembered

I don't get a happy ending

No fairy tale

No happily-ever-after

I was chosen for a different life

A different world of events

One that brought hard, complicated emotions

Instead of simple ones like joy

But there had to be someone for that world

Not everyone gets it easy

And it's okay

I just wish I knew why

Why I was chosen for pain

I'm struggling with it

I'm just wishing, regretting

Spending so much time hoping

When hope is a wasted emotion

You either have a chance

Or you don't

What's meant to be will play out

Hope won't change fate

I don't know why I wasted time

Thinking any different

But I know now
So no more time will be wasted

Hoping and trying

Reviews

[Pete]

Makes me think of 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost. Excellent job.

[Nicole Schuster]

Thank you!