Squandered Poem by Paul Reed

Squandered



Like birds, like flowers, oh! let us live To-day,
And leave To-morrow to the Fates' old fingers,
And waste no weeping over Yesterday!
Lo! round about the golden lustre lingers,

From ‘May-Day' by Sir Edmund William Gosse

We didn't live for today
Over tomorrow's worries our minds wandered
We wept for years over yesterday
So all Gosse's advice was squandered

Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: regret
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