The User by BJ Neblett

The User

by BJ Neblett

© 2013

Once I was a child

Childish games I did play

Carelessly

Ignoring waning days

Once I stood in manhood

Confident strong and blind

Foolishly

Leaving innocence behind

Once I was a lover

Roaming wild and free

Thoughtlessly

Hurting those who loved me

Once I was a pilgrim

My days I did wander

Squandering

All that life did offer

Once I was a dreamer

Now I just remember

Recalling

The things that never were

Once I was somebody         

Now I’m just nobody

Realizing

I never was…

                                                            Seattle, WA

                                                            May, 2013

No Regrets by BJ Neblett

By many requests, here is the first post on a new site dedicated to my poems and other ramblings.
Enjoy and comment.

No Regrets

Had this been the place and time

And if my eyes had not been blind

There might have been another way

We might have had another day

To live our lives the way we chose

To love and lust the way we rose

Above ourselves and all around

Living upon this thing we found

I might have loved you as I may

With no regrets to leave or stay

For Angel

                                                            Montreal, Canada

                                                            August, 1967