I don’t regret it 2015

 

I don't regret thinking

what I thought back then

even before there was a reason

 to Hope what I thought

 might come true

my mind churning up what

I would do if I could if you would let me

I don't regret that moment

 when I stole that first kiss

not the peck outside the diner

but the one outside the bar

and later in the car

feeling you shudder

when my fingers not so accidentally

 touched what nuns told us was forbidden

I don't regret doing it deliberately even later

cupping you up in the palms of my hands

like I would two bowls of Jello my mouth

aching  to taste

I regret letting all that slip away

even though I still dream

 and still do it in my head

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