Shane Windham

Observe the words of someone who regrets

having spent so much energy

on being critical of what I love, people included;

primarily people, in fact

I wrongly assumed it was proving their importance

to me, all that fault finding;

the opposite is what I most commonly achieved

Such lonely waste, this baggage-burdened heart

I’ve learned to expect nothing

in the way of sympathy,

and maybe that’s fair

Occasional