21: Misguided

Streaming through the bayou,
Listing amidst the rain.
Rocking against the laws,
A thousand miles from home.

If I could change the world,
If I could change my fears.
Maybe I could change my fate.
Maybe I thought I could.

How misguided was I.
How naive am I.
To wrong once and again,
And never learnt.

The fog of yesteryear
Obscures and denies
A present path
The mysteries of life.

Where I stood,
Where I died.
A boy of five and twenty,
A man that isn't ready.

How naive was I.
How misguided I am.
To trust in life,
And faulting twice and more.

One moment of folly,
A lifetime of pain.
What's done been done.
The luxury of regret never earnt.

Toeing the lines of freedom,
The hardest frontier.
I'll learn it hard.
A lesson never to be unlearnt.