Life shows most of it's possibilities

only after we have

passed the paths

which could have taken

us to them.

Looking back,

we are amazed at how much

we could have seen and done

if only we would have realized

that they were ours to reach.

So many opportunities

slipping to "what could have been",

wasted without knowing.

In the end, bitterness

and sense of loss mix

in that poisoned chalice

which holds our memory.

19.02.2014