If Only

If Only
by Rose Powell

If only I had listened
If only I had cared
If only I had known
If only I'd been warned

If only is the statement
Of regret, remorse, and sorrow,
If only is the lesson
That we learn to use tomorrow

Tomorrow we can listen
Tomorrow we can care
Tomorrow we will know
Tomorrow we've been warned

The lesson is intended
The lesson if its learnt
Is to bring about self knowledge
Of our lives and its events.

So come away and listen,
You can only be yourself
You can only choose from what you have
In lessons learnt before

So

Don't blame yourself for wanting
Don't blame yourself for hurt
The only blame that we can take
Is that we blame ourselves at all.


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