Bad decisions send me plummeting
Recovery hopeless
Closing my eyes, awaiting impact
Everything passes fast
How I should have lived?
Wisdom too late
Ifs and buts race through my mind
Nothing to cling onto
Redemption vacant
Fate, true and present.
Ernest Trova,
Untitled from the F.M. Manscapes portfolio, 1969,
Publisher Pace Editions,
NY, printer Fine Creations, Inc.,
© Estate of Ernest Trova.
