R is for Regret

I have a way of getting around grief and pain,

Of shock and trauma, I can come out sane.

But one emotion that I can’t get my head around,

Is that of regret doing the rounds.

“I could have, I should have, maybe, perhaps”,

Are words which give me painful jabs.

“Had I? Hadn’t I”– may have changed the game,

I end up feeling totally lame.

I have learnt the hard way,

That regret doesn’t easily go away.

We all have calls to take and decisions to make,

But don’t always have time to evaluate.

I ask myself, “Will I regret this later?”

And all of a sudden, things seem better!

The clouds lift up and I know,

With fair precision, which way to go!