The Time In My Mind

I sat too long in a window watching as life passed me by Consumed by fear or feeling ashamed to try Often I wonder what magic did those lost days’ hold Did I miss out on a life larger, greater and bold? I forgot that I told myself that one day I would be someone But so much life has passed that someone just didn’t become A shadow who footsteps disappear in the night Avoiding a reflection dulled over time & still laden with fright I watched my dreams blow away with the wind Dissolve into todays, brittle and thin I try not to ponder on “what if’s” and regrets Those mid mornings thoughts, run-away frets Of unclimbed mountains and loves that didn’t last My faults still haunt me and unearth a hidden past Now I sit at the window with the time in my mind Each precious minute I left so, so far behind.