Delayed Success

Disappointment 

Like old pain

Is soon forgotten 

When memories remain

Of times spent in the open

Of long lonely miles 

Or better still 

In the comfort of others 

With random smiles 

What's done is done

In the past it stays 

Except when it's needed 

to remind us of days 

When choices made 

Were to toil a little longer 

and with the task to stay

Rather than to succumb

to the ease of the path nearly made 

Disappointment still lingers 

The better result never seen

But it's an illusion 

of someone you've never been

Better to rejoice in that 

what is done 

For the past is the past 

and can never be re-run ..