Life’s Disappointments
It is simple math, the older we get, the more life’s disappointments we will have; It is the ultimate truth like the sun rising every day. We walk, we run, we stumble, we fall. In all of our lives there will be peaks and valleys, some will be easy to navigate others may not be so. On the trail of life we cannot be afraid of life’s disappointments, we will fail more often than not. Defeat and despair are the tools that we have been given as humans to learn how to cope with the ever changing flow of what will be our lives. Without defeat and life’s disappointments we would never learn to treasure the little things in life. Of course in the end we all will have regrets about what may have or could have been and we must acknowledge those but not dwell on them. It was a somber day in my life the day I wrote this poem, no different than what you the reader may experience. It helps me to write my disappointments down, it is my therapy.
“Life’s Disappointments”
I have grown older, life’s disappointments abound,
The ones from the past never lost ground.
The years have flown by, far too many to count,
After many years, life’s disappointments start to mount.
Youthful dreams, my heart, wanted to believe,
Life interfered, many dreams never achieved.
From notes passed to pigtail girls back in the day,
One or two women I have loved, that slipped away.
My children lives’, different I wish I could have been,
Sometimes as a parent, I never knew where to begin.
I was told early on to be a man was never let them see you cry,
In the last few years I have learned that is all a lie.
Younger, I thought I had the world by the tail,
The winds of fate changed my course on life’s trail.
All in all too many disappointments in my past,
As I traveled down life’s road speeding way too fast.
Poem by Kurt James
Kurt James © 2016
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Very well phrased poem and memoir, Kurt. You are right, without experiencing disappointments we would never learn or grow. I also find it good therapy to write how disappointments entered my life and how I dealt with them. Great work, Kurt.
Thank you Phyllis…may both of us have less disappointments in life as we go forward…
Nicely phrased and expressed as to our regrets and disappointments in life, yet that is our path and we all must accept the decisions we’ve made and the lessons we’ve had to learn. Well done
PS: line 1 ‘and life’s’, line 11 ‘see you cry’. Cheers
Heartfelt writing, Kurt. I too have experienced many disappointments especially in recent years. I wish we could travel back in time and change some of the things we have done and decisions we made. Thank for sharing.
Thanks for stopping by John, I always find your comments have meaning from the heart…..
I am sure each of us have our own share of disappointments in life..and some just keep haunting us over and over again and we just keep wishing we made better choices….I found this very emotive and heartfelt..thank you so much for sharing Kurt..
Thank you Anjana for stopping by and leaving a wonderful comment. Making better choices is something we all need to learn for sure, some of us never learn – some of us do though.