Repentance

Hello Mirror

So glad to see you my friend

It's been a while

Staring at the empty page before me

All the years of wreckage running through my head

Patterns of my life I thought adorned me

Revealing hurtful shame and deep lament

Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me

As the pen begins to trace my darkest past

Signs throughout my life that should have warned me

Of all the wrongs I've done for which I must repent

I once thought it better to regret

Things that I have done than haven't

Haven't haven't haven't

Sometimes you've got to be wrong

And learn the hard way

And sometimes you've got to be strong

When you think it's too late

Staring at the finished page before me

All the damage now so clear and evident

Thinking 'bout the dreaded task in store for me

A bitter fear at the thought of my amends

Hoping that the step will help restore me

To face my past and ask for forgiveness

Cleaning up my dirty side of this unswept street

Could this be the beginning of the end

I once thought it better to regret

Regret regret regret

Things that I have done than haven't

Haven't haven't haven't

Sometimes you've got to be wrong

And learn the hard way

And just when you're through hanging on

You're saved