In Retrospect

Only the skies I could see

With grey clouds scudding across them, so melancholy

My thoughts as clear as day

As I fell to my watery grave

Then was it, that realisation took hold,

Grasped me in her steel arms

And held me prisoner, 

That my life was unfulfilled, 

My story untold

The dreams I fostered yet to meet

Their ray of hope..

Yes, I fell to my watery grave

Afraid, not of death but of the life unlived..

 

I hit the water , my body submerged..

And I resurfaced in another world

Cold sweat on my face and neck,

Were reminders, like drying drops of water, after you've been rescued from a wreck.

And as I sat up on my bed

To do some rethinking

For the morrow is another new day, a second chance

To make the kaleidoscope of life more beautiful

In retrospect