I have a great many regrets,

Of choices and decisions made.

The pain of them still stings me yet,

I keep up with this masquerade.

I hide the ache behind my smile,

I try to carry on each day,

But once in every other while,

I think about the price I paid.

Foolish mistakes and hurtful words,

Those things cannot be taken back,

All my regrets, they linger still, 

From ghosts who haunt me from my past.