Bonfire of Regrets


If you stacked your regrets
like a bonfire

would you have the courage
to drop the match?

Could you stand
beside the fire

with a mug of cocoa
and someone playing guitar?

Could you allow yourself
to feel the warmth?

Could you keep from running
into the fire

and gathering
every flaming stick? — Michelle Barker, First Published in The Mitre, 2009