The Error of Your Ways

Start gathering your words

remember the ones you burned

decades ago

after you set them on fire

as if you could torch your disappointment

turn it to flame.

Only to find

charred pages floating through

broad daylight

searing your folly,

your shame.

Take those words

from yesterday’s sky

yes, those words

still burning and falling

now, hold them

close to your heart

and realize your game.