Indelible

You never made room for me

I spent a lifetime on my knees

Begging to be seen 

To be loved more than the hate you carried 

To be a future bigger than the past you wearied 

But it was never enough 

I was never enough for you to overcome yourself

And I blame myself still

For the life I could never till

Regret is a shallow grave

But nostalgia, an open coffin  

Dreams live on, even when we wake

And love carries through our red line mistakes