Are apologies just not enough, is regret not worth something more?
Echoes of enveloping errors entangle,
What if I had done something else before?
Suffocating, won't take long till I strangle...

Mistakes should get a chance to redeem, I believe,
Splashes of splattered sins should just disappear...
Yet the guilt inside of me exists to grieve,
Can't be forgotten, can't be forgiven, can't it just all be clear?

Taunting, tainted stains just bleed and blot,
If I try enough, it'll rub away, will it not?
Why, in this web of blunders, am I caught?
Out, I say, out damned spot!

© Alter Ego