I don’t want to live forever
but I haven’t had my fill yet
of seeing how things turn out…
I don’t agree with John Betjeman
saying “I wish I had had more sex
but I wish I may have
many more connections…
I won’t know till it happens
whether fear of the present
and future or just plain
tiredness will mark the point
where I am ready to let go…
I know I would have more
on my retrospective bucket list
than many people, though others
might have done still more but
it’s never enough – I don’t want
more money except to do more…
I don’t agree with Edith Piaf
– I’ve done things I wish I hadn’t
lost touch with people I shouldn’t have
had questions I never thought to ask
activities I never tried – heights, sights
and strangers that will never now take
my breath away, it’s too late for some things…
Je ne regrette rien…
Andrew Wilson, 2025
Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Björn Rudberg (brudberg) in Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft, invites us to use Negation – outlining something by saying what it is not…