On our life's journey we all make mistakes but time ticks on fast

And why worry about what might have been since we cannot change the past

Though some of us our past mistakes known to repeat again

Some lessons of life we should have learned with us do not remain

We all are very different as some do like to say

And most of us do look at life in quite a different way

No point in regretting your past mistakes the past has been and gone

We can only live in the here and now and life it does go on

No use lamenting on what might have been regret seems such a waste of time

Some ageing people live with the unhappy memories of mistakes they made in their prime

The burden of regret they do carry with them until their last night and day

Regretting whilst the seconds on their lives do tick away

For such seems such a waste of time as it doesn't change a thing

You may as well be happy and laugh and dance and sing. 

-Francis Duggan-