Regret
So many phrases fade into obscurity
Remembered for nothing
Save that any one of them
Might have brought me fame
Had I caught it,
Might have bestowed fortune
Had I remembered it,
It might have granted me immortality
Had I recognized it,
Hell, it might have even been sublime
Had I understood it.
I let it go not realizing its worth.
All those could-have-beens
And might-have-beens and maybes
Drifting by into the distance.
Sailing by untouched
Into obscurity.
Opportunities missed.
The story of my life.