by Raymond Kibiwot Bundotich on Monday, 2 August 2010 at 17:28

I wake up wishing
'everyday before today was just a bad dream'
i open my eyes hoping, it's heaven i'll see
but it's the calendar right in front of me
2nd August of 2010, it's what it reads
half my life gone & i'm still nothing;

they say, 'everyday is a new beginning'
but look at me!
tell me, how can that be?
everyday is a fight with the sad reality
of how much of a failure i have been!
& it's a fight i never win;

i've made a mess of every good thing
that ever happened to me,
seems every time happyness sees me, it flees!
it is believed, 'regrets today promise fulfilment tomorrow'
but how comes i've never done anything fulfilling?
yet i have so many regrets & they all sting.