If I Had Known Better...

I could have lived light as a feather...

Should I have known better.

My days would have been different

full of glory and amusement

only if I had known better.

All the time spent with disappointment

would have been for my soul improvement,

if I had known better.

Nights carrying ghosts of fear

whispering deadly words in my ear

it would all have been different

should I had known better...

for all my existence,

that nights are friendly

and ghosts are only

dead flowers in the imagination

when the mind is lonely;

and fear is just a creation

of the untamed emotion.

Murder of elation.

Ah... If I had known better

I would have believed I could

and improved my mood

I would have been stronger

and stayed in life for longer.

© Rosangela C. Taylor / 04-23-09