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Better Not Bitter
by +Steven Curtis Lance → (All Poetry by +Steven Curtis Lance)
Sunday, May 17, 2015    Rated "G" by the Author.
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I have written of regret
Bitten of its bitter fruit and yet
It was nothing I would want to
Do again but something I got through

On the way to better from
Bitter and better overcome
Something to let go of let
Love know better about outgrow it

Though I had been tempted to so
Tasted the waste of it but I know
Better than bitter who when
I did it then did not again

Having tasted it I get
Regret is something I should forget
Nor could it be anything I
Would want to live for before I die

Better not bitter better for
Being then seeing now being more
Having written my getting by
Way of tomorrow through yesterday

Not for nothing anyway
To live for love forward today

 

Steven Curtis Lance

 


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 Reviews of "Better Not Bitter"
Reviewed by Jaye Murphy
Reviewed on May 18, 2015
Truly ministers. I've been there.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 18, 2015
The only thing left is what "my getting by," means. Everything else is for the better.

Ron

Reviewed on May 17, 2015
There ya go!

Love ya!

Jane


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