Mistakes

Mistakes

By Steve Loggins

1/25/2012

Mistakes of the past

Haunt my dreams of today

Mistakes of today

Spoil my dreams for tomorrow

Mistakes forged in fear

Of failing to be

Someone important

Someone to see

Mistakes forged in pride

Of soul’s vanity

A baseless search

Of my imaginings

I really quite wonder

At my failure to close

Doors to the past

The Lord only knows

Why I wake in the night

With rememberings

That make my heart burn

With embarrassment’s sting.

Mistakes of the past

Cloud my judgment today

Mistakes of today

Threaten goals for tomorrow

Learn from the past

Mistakes of my youth

Give up their ghosts

Keep only the truth

The lessons we learn

From mistakes we have made

Are the rungs of life’s ladder

That end at the grave.